Motif
Severed head expressing anger after death
severed_head_expressing_anger_after_death
A motif of the Restless Dead, Haunting, and Vengeance family, within the sub-family Vengeance, Crime Revelation, and Posthumous Retribution. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
norse
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The Poetic Edda HELGAKVITHA HUNDINGSBANA II / THE SECOND LAY OF HELGI HUNDINGSBANE / INTRODUCTORY NOTE / NOTES; lines 12875-12984 confidence: medium
The stanza appears interpolated; place names are noted; Saxo tells of Starkath's severed head biting the ground in anger; the stanza is probably from a different Starkath poem.
The Starkath note reports a story in which the hero's severed head bit the ground in anger.
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