Motif
Fortress sack with captives, treasure, and cattle taken
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A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Cattle Raid and Livestock War. 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 INTRODUCTION / THE DRIVING OF THE CATTLE OF FLIDAIS / THE DRIVING OF THE CATTLE OF FLIDAIS / LITERAL TRANSLATION; lines 12119-12210 confidence: high
The Ulstermen, with Medb and Ailill's people, lay waste the castle and take Flidais, women captives, costly things, gold, silver, horns, drinking cups, keys, vats, garments, a hundred milch-cows, a hundred and forty oxen, and thirty hundred small cattle.
The castle is laid waste and the attackers take Flidais, women captives, valuables, vessels, garments, cattle, oxen, and small livestock.
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