Motif
fatal combat prompted by promised woman or prize
fatal_combat_prompted_by_promised_woman_or_prize
A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Causes of War. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
celtic irish
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Heroic Romances of Ireland ALSO THE CONCLUSION OF THE TALE FROM THE SAME VERSION / THE COMBAT AT THE FORD / INTRODUCTION / THE COMBAT AT THE FORD; lines 6021-6196 confidence: medium
"He came to fight, thus trusting / Might Findabar be won."
Cuchulain says Ferdia came to fight trusting that Findabar might be won, and also identifies a brooch as an object for whose sake Ferdia undertook the combat.
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