Motif
Encounter with spinning women at a water boundary
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A motif of the Fate Figures and Cosmic Weaving family, within the sub-family Fate Sisters, Birth Allotters, and Threshold Spinners. 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 LAYS OF THE HEROES / VLUNDARKVITHA / THE LAY OF VLUND / INTRODUCTORY NOTE; lines 10069-10184 confidence: medium
Early one morning the brothers find three women spinning flax on the lake shore; near them are their swan-garments, and the prose says they are Valkyries, naming Hlathguth the Swan-White, Hervor the All-Wise, and Olrun.
The brothers find the women at the lake shore spinning flax, and the stanza presents the maids resting at the sea-shore and spinning flax.
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