Motif
Combat to be proven in a feast-hall or house setting
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A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Causes of War. 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 PAGE 38 / PAGE 41 / PAGE 42 / PAGE 45; lines 7139-7150 confidence: medium
The speech says that “heroes shall stride to wild lion-strife” and that “man overturns man to-night in this house.”
The speech says that man will overturn man that night in the house.
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