Motif
Boastful challenger against invincible hero
boastful_challenger_against_invincible_hero
A motif of the Conditional Invulnerability and Hidden Weakness family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
persian
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Persian Literature, Volume 1 THE STORY OF SAIWUSH / KAI-KHOSRU / AKWN DW / BARZ, AND HIS CONFLICT WITH RUSTEM; lines 9778-9883 confidence: high
Afrsiyb says Rustem is his bitter invincible enemy, equal to a hundred strong men, unaffected by sword, mace, or javelin, and like a mountain of steel; Barz boasts he can reduce a hundred such mountains to dust.
Rustem is described as invincible and impervious to weapons, while Barz boasts that he can destroy such strength and later threatens to behead Rustem.
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