Motif
Battlefield apparition challenges or shames the young warrior
battlefield_apparition_challenges_or_shames_the_young_warrior
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.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
celtic irish
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The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge THE PILLOW-TALK / THIS IS THE ROUTE OF THE TAIN / THE MARCH OF THE HOST / THE YOUTHFUL EXPLOITS OF CUCHULAIN; lines 2899-3008 confidence: medium
Setanta goes onto the dark battlefield, meets a maimed man carrying half of his brother, refuses to carry the load, grapples with him, hears Badb from the corpses call the opponent a phantom, then beheads him with a playing-stick and drives the ball over the battlefield.
On the dark battlefield, a strange maimed man grapples with Setanta; Badb speaks from among the corpses, calling the opponent a phantom and shaming the warrior underneath him.
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