Motif
Deadly or overpowering music
deadly_or_overpowering_music
A motif of the Enchanting Music and Sound Power 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 10095-10225 confidence: high
Fraech's trumpeters play before him until thirty of Ailill's special friends die; Fraech enters the bath, women rub and wash him, and he is laid in a bed.
Fraech's trumpeters play until thirty of Ailill's special friends die, and the fairy women's lament later overwhelms the men in the Liss.
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