Motif
Challengers humiliated by prior defeats recalled in public
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A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Champion Combat and Duel. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
celtic irish
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Heroic Romances of Ireland MAC DATHO'S BOAR / INTRODUCTION / MAC DATHO'S BOAR / FROM THE BOOK OF LEINSTER (TWELFTH-CENTURY MS.); lines 2185-2315 confidence: high
Laegaire objects to Ket dividing the boar, but Ket recalls a border encounter in which Laegaire fled pierced by a spear, leaving charioteer, chariot, and horses behind; Laegaire sits down.
Ket responds to Laegaire and Angus not by fighting immediately but by publicly recounting earlier defeats or injuries connected with them.
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