Motif
Ordinary household material as future fuel for destruction
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A motif of the Flood, Fire, and Cosmic Renewal family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
norse
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The Story of Burnt Njal: From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga CHAPTER CXXII. / OF THE JUDGES. / CHAPTER CXXIII. / AN ATTACK PLANNED ON NJAL AND HIS SONS.; lines 12465-12499 confidence: high
Saevuna takes a cudgel, goes above the house to a vetch stack, beats it, curses it, and Skarphedinn laughs and asks why she is angry with it.
A common vetch stack is singled out by Saevuna as the material that will be lit with fire when the house is burned.
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