Motif
Consolation through recounting other sufferings
consolation_through_recounting_other_sufferings
A motif of the Storytelling and Narrative as Sacred Power family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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norse
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The Poetic Edda NOTES / GUTHRUNARKVITHA I / THE FIRST LAY OF GUTHRUN / INTRODUCTORY NOTE; lines 16057-16186 confidence: high
Guthrun sits by the dead Sigurth and does not weep; people come to console her; the prose says she had eaten Fafnir's heart and understood bird speech.
Warriors and women come to console Guthrun; the women speak of their own bitter griefs in an effort to ease hers.
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