Motif
Love-sickness caused by dream vision
love_sickness_caused_by_dream_vision
A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family, within the sub-family Lovesickness and Longing. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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celtic welsh
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The Mabinogion GERAINT THE SON OF ERBIN / THE DREAM OF RHONABWY / PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED / THE DREAM OF MAXEN WLEDIG; lines 8142-8238 confidence: high
The maiden rises; Maxen puts his arms around her neck, they sit together in the gold chair, and the noises of dogs, shields, spears, and horses awaken him.
After awakening from the embrace, Maxen becomes sad, withdraws from ordinary pleasures, and seeks sleep because only in sleep can he see the maiden.
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