Motif
betrayal killing by one outside the oath bond
betrayal_killing_by_one_outside_the_oath_bond
A motif of the Betrayal and Violated Trust 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 Poetic Edda BROT AF SIGURTHARKVITHU / FRAGMENT OF A SIGURTH LAY / INTRODUCTORY NOTE / NOTES; lines 15968-16054 confidence: high
The Volsungasaga has a different stanza with the snake called wood-fish; eating snakes and beasts of prey was supposed to induce ferocity; Gotthorm, Grimhild's son and Gunnar's half-brother, kills because he has not sworn brotherhood with Sigurth.
Gotthorm is said to kill Sigurth specifically because he had not sworn brotherhood with him, unlike Gunnar.
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