Motif
love-sickness or secret love as bodily illness
love_sickness_or_secret_love_as_bodily_illness
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.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
celtic irish
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Heroic Romances of Ireland PAGE 12 / PAGE 13 / PAGE 14 / PAGE 15; lines 6619-6691 confidence: medium
Speaker B asks what has happened to the young man and says his bed of sickness is long.
The dialogue connects the man's long sickness, lack of pleasure, and bodily distress with the possibility that 'it is love' and with a woman who may be vexing him.
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