Motif
Beloved foreshadowed as source of joy and grief
beloved_foreshadowed_as_source_of_joy_and_grief
A motif of the Beauty Paired with Pain and Paradox family, within the sub-family Beloved and Erotic Love as Wound, Joy, and Grief. 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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The Nibelungenlied THE NIBELUNGENLIED / FIRST ADVENTURE / SECOND ADVENTURE / THIRD ADVENTURE.; lines 2076-2233 confidence: medium
Siegfried rides with the kings, grieves the ladies by going abroad, stays a full year in Gunther's country, and never sees Kriemhild, through whom joy and grief are foreshadowed.
The narrator states that Kriemhild will later bring Siegfried both joy and grief after he has spent a year without seeing her.
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