Motif
Keening and memorialization after tragic error
keening_and_memorialization_after_tragic_error
A motif of the Lament, Mourning, and Tragic Recognition family, within the sub-family Mistaken Killing and Remorse. 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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Gods and Fighting Men CHAPTER II. MEARGACH'S WIFE / CHAPTER III. AILNE'S REVENGE / BOOK NINE: THE WEARING AWAY OF THE FIANNA. / CHAPTER I. THE QUARREL WITH THE SONS OF MORNA; lines 13786-13882 confidence: high
Three battalions of the Fianna in Corcomruadh see a troop's track, think it belongs to the sons of Morna, surround the group at night, and kill them all; in the morning they recognize them as their own people with the King of Ulster's sons and keen them with three loud cries.
After discovering the mistaken killing, the Fianna keen the dead, and Caoilte and Oisin place a great stone called the Stone of the Mistake over the king's sons.
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