Motif
Personified dream figures foretell conquest and strategy
personified_dream_figures_foretell_conquest_and_strategy
A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception family, within the sub-family Prophetic Dreams and Dream Messages. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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celtic irish
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Heroic Romances of Ireland LITERAL TRANSLATION / THE RAID FOR DARTAID'S CATTLE / INTRODUCTION / THE RAID FOR DARTAID'S CATTLE; lines 10617-10737 confidence: high
Ailill has a sleep-vision of a fair youth and woman, and the fairy identifies them as Conquest and Defeat; Ailill says he shuns Defeat and welcomes Conquest.
Ailill dreams of a youth and woman named Conquest and Defeat, and the fairy woman tells him how Dartaid's cows may be won.
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