Motif
chess contest between visiting hero and queen-host
chess_contest_between_visiting_hero_and_queen_host
A motif of the Hospitality Test and Stranger Guest family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
celtic irish
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Heroic Romances of Ireland THE RAID FOR THE CATTLE OF FRAECH / TAIN BO FRAICH / Part I / LITERAL TRANSLATION; lines 9868-9987 confidence: high
Ailill orders food for the warriors; Medb prefers to play chess against Fraech; Fraech's people cook wild animals, and Ailill asks Fraech's harpers to play, with their adorned otter-skin harp-bag or harp part described.
Medb chooses to play chess against Fraech; the contest lasts three days and nights, and Fraech says he has beaten her while declining the stake.
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