Motif
Heart-blood loss from longing
heart_blood_loss_from_longing
A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family, within the sub-family Lovesickness and Longing. 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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Gods and Fighting Men BOOK SIX: DIARMUID. / CHAPTER I. BIRTH OF DIARMUID / CHAPTER II. HOW DIARMUID GOT HIS LOVE-SPOT / CHAPTER III. THE DAUGHTER OF KING UNDER-WAVE; lines 10725-10807 confidence: high
Diarmuid finds three drops of blood, puts them in a napkin, and says the greyhound lost them.
The princess says that every time she thought of Diarmuid on her journey, she lost a drop of the blood of her heart; Diarmuid has collected three drops.
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