Motif
Hero wins a bride surrounded by flames
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A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family, within the sub-family Bride Contest and Suitor Trials. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
norse
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The Poetic Edda NOTES / SVIPDAGSMOL / THE BALLAD OF SVIPDAG / INTRODUCTORY NOTE; lines 9314-9356 confidence: high
Says the essence of the story is the hero’s winning of a bride ringed about by flames, and that this is strongly suggestive of parts of the Sigurth–Brynhild traditions.
The note identifies ‘the heros winning of a bride ringed about by flames’ as the essence of the story.
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