Motif
Giant or monster demands a daughter as ransom for captive sons
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A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family, within the sub-family Forbidden and Transgressive Love. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
celtic welsh
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The Mabinogion CONTENTS / INTRODUCTION / C. E. G. / THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN; lines 1086-1177 confidence: high
The Earl explains that his two sons were seized while hunting in the mountains by a man-shaped monster of giant stature who kills and devours men and demands the Earl's daughter.
The mountain giant seizes the Earl's two sons and threatens to kill them unless the Earl gives up his daughter.
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