Motif
doomed hospitality and fatal escort
doomed_hospitality_and_fatal_escort
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.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
germanic
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The Nibelungenlied TWENTY-FOURTH ADVENTURE / TWENTY-FIFTH ADVENTURE / TWENTY-SIXTH ADVENTURE / TWENTY-SEVENTH ADVENTURE; lines 13324-13446 confidence: high
Hagen arranges for the shield to be carried; Dankwart receives costly dress from the margrave's daughter; the narration says the guests accepted gifts to honor the generous host, who would soon be slain by his guests in combat.
The host gives freely and escorts the guests, while the narration says the host will be slain by his guests and that none of Ruediger's escort returns alive to Bechelaren.
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