Motif
reluctant champion compelled to fight former pupil
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A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Treachery and Forbidden Kin Combat. 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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The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge THE SCYTHED CHARIOT / XVIII / HERE NOW IS TOLD THE MISTHROW AT BELACH EOIN. / HERE NOW FOLLOWETH THE DISGUISING OF TAMON; lines 8988-9074 confidence: high
Medb summons Fergus to fight Cuchulain at the ford; Fergus objects that it would not befit him to fight a beardless young lad, his own disciple and the fosterling of Ulster.
Fergus refuses to fight Cuchulain because Cuchulain is his young disciple and fosterling, but he is intoxicated, pressed, and sent to the combat-place.
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