Motif
Courageous human knowingly receives an uncanny visitor
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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.
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estonian
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The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country THE TREASURE-BRINGER. / THE WOODEN MAN AND THE BIRCH-BARK MAID. / MARTIN AND HIS DEAD MASTER. / THE COURAGEOUS BARN-KEEPER.; lines 12940-13005 confidence: medium
The barn-keeper is exceptionally courageous; Old Boy visits him in the barn, believes himself unrecognized as other than an ordinary peasant, but the barn-keeper recognizes him and hears his bachelor complaint.
The barn-keeper is said to be exceptionally courageous, recognizes Old Boy, and continues to host him while pretending not to know him.
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