Motif
saving tree or shrub
saving_tree_or_shrub
A motif of the World Axis and Sacred Center family, within the sub-family Tree Refuges, Recovery, and Preservation. 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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Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN / CHAPTER III: FRIGGA / CHAPTER IV: THOR; lines 3171-3290 confidence: high
Thor pulled himself up by a little shrub, “the mountain-ash or sorb,” later known as “Thor’s salvation.”
Thor escapes the river by pulling himself up with a mountain-ash or sorb, later called Thor’s salvation.
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