Motif
bereaved parent's lament and desolated household
bereaved_parent_s_lament_and_desolated_household
A motif of the Lament, Mourning, and Tragic Recognition family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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germanic
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Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem XXXIII. / BRAVE THOUGH AGED.--REMINISCENCES. / XXXIV. / BEOWULF SEEKS THE DRAGON.--BEOWULF'S REMINISCENCES.; lines 5167-5288 confidence: high
An old father sees his young son on the gallows for the raven, cannot help him, remembers his loss each morning, and beholds an emptied house without harp-joy and with riders in the grave.
The passage imagines an old father grieving a hanged son and beholding a house without heirs, harp-joy, or living riders.
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