Motif
forewarned combat injury
forewarned_combat_injury
A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception family, within the sub-family Battle and Conflict Portents. 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 THE COMBAT AT THE FORD / PAGE 118 / PAGE 121 / PAGE 124; lines 8287-8305 confidence: low
“So that he may take the point of a weapon through him.”
A corrected line mentions receiving the point of a weapon through the body, while the stanza warns of an encounter with harmful consequences.
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