Motif
Coercive burning threat to obtain a potent drink
coercive_burning_threat_to_obtain_a_potent_drink
A motif of the Sacred Substance and Divine Intoxication 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 Poetic Edda THE POEM OF HYNDLA / INTRODUCTORY NOTE / FRAGMENT OF THE SHORT VOLUSPO / NOTES; lines 9273-9311 confidence: medium
The note to stanza 49 says the manuscript repeats lines from stanza 47, probably because two lines have been lost, and reconstructs their sense as Freyja threatening to burn the giantess alive unless she swiftly fetches the memory-beer.
The reconstructed lost lines likely had Freyja threatening to burn the giantess alive unless she brought the memory-beer.
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