Motif
Attempted destruction in a heated iron enclosure followed by escape
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A motif of the Initiation and Transformative Ordeal family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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The Mabinogion PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC / GERAINT THE SON OF ERBIN / THE DREAM OF RHONABWY / PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED; lines 6666-6754 confidence: high
Matholwch takes the giant couple in and maintains them, but after they become disorderly his people ask him to part with them; the people then arrange for an iron chamber to be made and prepare coals and smiths' tools.
The giant family is enclosed in an iron chamber heated red-hot, but the man breaks through the white-hot plates and his wife follows him out.
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