Motif
Belated rescue voyage
belated_rescue_voyage
A motif of the The Hero's Journey family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
norse
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The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga); with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda THE SONG OF ATLI. / THE WHETTING OF GUDRUN. / THE LAY OF HAMDIR / THE LAMENT OF ODDRUN.; lines 8287-8346 confidence: medium
The speaker is away at Geirmund and hears, even from Hlesey, the harp-strings singing of sore trouble.
Oddrun hears the distress, orders bondmaids ready, and travels by ship over the sound to save the king, but Gunnar is fatally stung before help remains possible.
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