Motif
kinship warning ignored because of pledged honor
kinship_warning_ignored_because_of_pledged_honor
A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Treachery and Forbidden Kin Combat. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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norse
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Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas CHAPTER XXIII: THE GIANTS / CHAPTER XXIV: THE DWARFS / CHAPTER XXV: THE ELVES / CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA; lines 9318-9428 confidence: high
Siggeir invites Volsung and his kin to visit; Signy suspects evil and implores her father to retract his promise, but he refuses to break his pledged word.
Signy warns Volsung and later the arriving Volsungs of Siggeir's ambush, but Volsung refuses to retract his pledged word or retreat from danger.
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