Motif
Burial obligation owed to a slain foe
burial_obligation_owed_to_a_slain_foe
A motif of the Heroic Funeral Rites and Memorialization 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 Story of Burnt Njal: From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga SIR GEORGE DASENT'S INTRODUCTION. / THE NORTHMEN IN ICELAND. / SUPERSTITIONS OF THE RACE. / SOCIAL PRINCIPLES.; lines 571-657 confidence: high
The passage distinguishes avowed manslaughter from murder, includes night killing and failure to cover a foe's body with sand or gravel as murder, and cites Thiostolf, Glum, Thord Freedmanson, Brynjolf, and Atli in burial examples.
The passage says killing a foe without performing burial rites by covering the body with sand or gravel was treated as murder.
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