Motif
foretelling or announcing armed conflict
foretelling_or_announcing_armed_conflict
A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Battle Preparation and Ritual. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
celtic irish
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Heroic Romances of Ireland PAGE 61 / PAGE 62 / PAGE 63 / PAGE 65; lines 7452-7462 confidence: medium
"we shall come to a fight of very many and very hard spears, of plying of red swords in right fists"
The speaker says that they will come to a fight involving many hard spears and red swords.
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