Motif
forced duel between comrades
forced_duel_between_comrades
A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Treachery and Forbidden Kin Combat. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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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 5681-5824 confidence: high
Cuchulain asks whether this is Ferdia's face, says he is led to war by a woman to shed his comrade's blood, and names Maev's daughter Findabar; Ferdia says he is forced toward the place of his final grave.
The passage repeatedly calls the opponents comrades while presenting Ferdia as brought to battle by Maev and constrained by reputation.
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