Motif
blind singer remembered as the sweetest bard
blind_singer_remembered_as_the_sweetest_bard
A motif of the Storytelling and Narrative as Sacred Power family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
greek
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The Iliad THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. / CONCLUDING NOTE. / A. POPE / END OF THE ILIAD; lines 23454-23581 confidence: medium
A translated farewell asks Origias to remember the speaker; it imagines a sea-wanderer asking an island maid which bard sings sweetest, and the answer naming a blind poor old man dwelling on Chios's rocky shore.
The imagined answer names a blind poor old man on Chios as the sweetest singer.
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