Motif
Dream imagery of animals foreshadowing or associated with violent consumption
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A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception family, within the sub-family Dream Visitors and Vision Revelations. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
norse
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The Poetic Edda INTRODUCTORY NOTE / GUTHRUNARKVITHA II, EN FORNA / THE SECOND, OR OLD, LAY OF GUTHRUN / INTRODUCTORY NOTE; lines 17752-17772 confidence: medium
“Hounds I dreamed from my hand I loosed… Their flesh methought was eagles food, And their bodies now I needs must eat.”
A dream is recounted in which hounds are loosed, are described in terms of predation (eagles' food), and the dreamer is compelled to eat their bodies.
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