Motif
fate-marked ill foreshowing by the Norns
fate_marked_ill_foreshowing_by_the_norns
A motif of the Fate Figures and Cosmic Weaving family, within the sub-family Norns and Their Fate Pronouncements. 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 Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga); with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda THE LAY CALLED THE SHORT LAY OF SIGURD. / THE HELL-RIDE OF BRYNHILD. / FRAGMENTS OF THE LAY OF BRYNHILD / THE SECOND OR ANCIENT LAY OF GUDRUN.; lines 6928-7107 confidence: medium
Atli wakes Gudrun, refers to the Norns and an ill foreshowing, and says he dreamed that Gudrun set a guile-wrought sword in his heart.
Atli connects the waking from his ill-foreshowing dream with the Norns.
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