Motif
Single combat substitutes for wider battle
single_combat_substitutes_for_wider_battle
A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Champion Combat and Duel. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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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 7580-7675 confidence: high
Pryderi asks that the wrong be settled between him and Gwydion; Gwydion says he will not ask Gwynedd's men to fight because of him and will fight Pryderi himself.
Pryderi asks that the man who wronged him oppose him personally so the people remain unscathed, and Gwydion agrees to fight him himself.
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