Motif
Post-catastrophe remarriage and children
post_catastrophe_remarriage_and_children
A motif of the Flood, Fire, and Cosmic Renewal family, within the sub-family Survivor Pairs, Lineages, Repeopling, and Refounding. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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norse
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The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga); with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda CHAPTER XXXVI. Of the Journey of the Giukings to King Atli. / CHAPTER XXXVII. The Battle in the Burg of King Atli. / CHAPTER XXXVIII. Of the slaying of the Giukings. / CHAPTER XXXIX. The End of Atli and his Kin and Folk.; lines 5068-5095 confidence: high
Folk awake amid dread and fire, strike each other down, and die; Atli and all his folk end their lives, while Gudrun does not wish to live though her ending day has not come.
After surviving the destruction and the sea, Gudrun is taken as wife by King Jonakr and has children named Hamdir, Sorli, and Erp.
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