Motif
approach to final resting-place
approach_to_final_resting_place
A motif of the Heroic Funeral Rites and Memorialization family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
celtic irish
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Heroic Romances of Ireland PAGE 129 / PAGE 133 / PAGE 134 / PAGE 138; lines 8442-8482 confidence: medium
The note interprets the lines as saying that someone must go to the sod of his final resting-place; it identifies the person as Ferdia and rejects the universal 'each one' interpretation found in O'Curry and Douglas Hyde.
The note explains a line as referring to a particular person going to the sod where his final resting-place shall be, identified as Ferdia.
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