Motif
Fatal weapon from harmless overlooked plant
fatal_weapon_from_harmless_overlooked_plant
A motif of the Conditional Invulnerability and Hidden Weakness family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
norse
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The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda CHAPTER XIII. / CHAPTER XIV. / CHAPTER XV. / THE DEATH OF BALDER.; lines 2882-2960 confidence: high
Loke, in the likeness of a woman, questions Frigg in Fensal and learns that the little mistletoe shrub west of Valhal did not swear the oath.
The un-oathed mistletoe becomes the wand or dart that pierces and kills Balder.
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