Ancient ✦ Wisdom ✦ Atlas

Motif

Beloved's self-death and placement beside dead hero with sword boundary

beloved_s_self_death_and_placement_beside_dead_hero_with_sword_boundary

A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family, within the sub-family United in Death. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions

norse

  • Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas CHAPTER XXIII: THE GIANTS / CHAPTER XXIV: THE DWARFS / CHAPTER XXV: THE ELVES / CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA; lines 10444-10568 confidence: high

    Sigurd is laid on the pyre in armor with the Helmet of Dread, his steed, and faithful servants; Brunhild then distributes possessions, dresses richly, and stabs herself on her bed.

    Brunhild kills herself and asks to be laid beside Sigurd with an unsheathed sword between them, recalling the earlier proxy wooing.

    read in the book →