Motif
Birth visitation and destiny gifts
birth_visitation_and_destiny_gifts
A motif of the Prophecy and Systematic Divination family, within the sub-family Personal Destiny and Kinship Prophecies. 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 XIV: HERMOD / CHAPTER XV: VIDAR / CHAPTER XVI: VALI / CHAPTER XVII: THE NORNS; lines 6162-6289 confidence: high
In the Nornagesta story, the three sisters visit Denmark and enter a nobleman's home at his first child's birth; two make favorable predictions, while crowding pushes the third from her chair.
The three sisters attend a child's birth in Denmark, and two pronounce favorable destinies for the newborn.
read in the book →