Ancient Wisdom Atlas

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

  • 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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