Motif
avenging monster-mother combat
avenging_monster_mother_combat
A motif of the Divine Warrior and Sacred Combat family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
germanic
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Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem XXII. / BEOWULF SEEKS GRENDEL'S MOTHER. / XXIII. / BEOWULF'S FIGHT WITH GRENDEL'S MOTHER.; lines 3657-3802 confidence: high
Grendel's mother, keeper of the currents for fifty winters, notices a man from above, grabs Beowulf, cannot pierce his mail, and bears him homeward.
Grendel's mother seizes and fights Beowulf and later attacks him with a knife in vengeance for her only son.
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