Motif
landscape and birds as warning voices
landscape_and_birds_as_warning_voices
A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception family, within the sub-family Animal, Bodily, and Environmental Omens. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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finnish karelian
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Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 13318-13509 confidence: high
Withered trees, ravens, and jackdaws appear; the birds’ chorus says she no longer has a home there and that it is not the happy homestead of childhood.
Ravens, jackdaws, portals, hills, and valleys speak or echo warnings about the speaker’s home and kin.
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