Motif
love-sickness requiring the beloved's cure
love_sickness_requiring_the_beloved_s_cure
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 PROLOGUE IN FAIRYLAND / FROM THE LEABHAR NA H-UIDHRI / THE COURTSHIP OF ETAIN / EGERTON VERSION; lines 1371-1506 confidence: high
Ailill says Eocho made Etain queen, that his own passion began more than a year ago, and that his body and reputation suffer from it.
Ailill's passion for Etain is described as a bodily sickness, and Etain tends him and arranges the tryst explicitly to heal him.
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