Motif
Lamenting wife offers healing to doomed warrior
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A motif of the Lament, Mourning, and Tragic Recognition family, within the sub-family Mourning Kin. 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 III. AILNE'S REVENGE / BOOK NINE: THE WEARING AWAY OF THE FIANNA. / CHAPTER I. THE QUARREL WITH THE SONS OF MORNA / CHAPTER II. DEATH OF GOLL; lines 13885-13960 confidence: high
Goll's wife comes to a rock where she can speak with him and calls him to come to her, pitying him on the sea rocks without drink but salt water and offering nourishment and healing.
Goll's wife asks him to come to her, offers nourishment from her breast and healing, but he refuses and later dies while she laments him.
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