Motif
champion's prolonged single combat ending in beheading
champion_s_prolonged_single_combat_ending_in_beheading
A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Aftermath and Spoils. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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celtic irish
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Gods and Fighting Men CHAPTER VII. FIGHTING AND PEACE / CHAPTER VIII. THE BOAR OF BEINN GULBAIN / BOOK EIGHT: CNOC-AN-AIR. / CHAPTER I. TAILC, SON OF TREON; lines 13149-13246 confidence: high
A thousand Fianna are killed; another thousand under Caoilte are worsted; Osgar fights Tailc for five days and nights without food, drink, or sleep and beheads him.
Osgar fights Tailc for five days and nights without food, drink, or sleep and then strikes off his head.
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