Motif
public humiliation penance after alleged child-killing
public_humiliation_penance_after_alleged_child_killing
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family False Accusation and Fraud Exposed. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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celtic welsh
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The Mabinogion PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC / GERAINT THE SON OF ERBIN / THE DREAM OF RHONABWY / PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED; lines 6307-6392 confidence: high
The story spreads; nobles ask Pwyll to put away Rhiannon, but he refuses and says that if she has done wrong she should do penance.
Rhiannon accepts a seven-year penance to sit by a horseblock, tell the story, and offer to carry strangers on her back.
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