Motif
ideal beauty as comparative standard
ideal_beauty_as_comparative_standard
A motif of the Beauty Paired with Pain and Paradox family, within the sub-family Ideal Beauty and Its Comparative Standard. 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 PAGE 10 / PAGE 11 / PAGE 12 / PAGE 13; lines 6594-6616 confidence: medium
The note cites a phrase about Etain, compares it with the Courtship of Emer and Irish Texts iii, and says the meaning is that Etain is the test to which all beauty must be compared.
The note interprets the phrase as making Etain the measure against which all beauty is compared.
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