Motif
battle-site etiological naming and memorial stones
battle_site_etiological_naming_and_memorial_stones
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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The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge XVIII / HERE NOW IS TOLD THE MISTHROW AT BELACH EOIN. / HERE NOW FOLLOWETH THE DISGUISING OF TAMON / HERE NOW COMETH THE HEAD-PLACE OF FERCHU; lines 9309-9432 confidence: high
The ford contains a rock marked by sword-hilts, knees, elbows, fists, and spear butt-ends; twenty-nine standing stones were set up; the ford is named Fuil Iairn because of blood over weapons there.
The narrative explains the ford-name Fuil Iairn through blood over weapons and says a marked rock and twenty-nine standing stones remain at the site.
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