Motif
Survivor of combat left permanently maimed
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A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Aftermath and Spoils. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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celtic irish
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The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge THE YOUTHFUL EXPLOITS OF CUCHULAIN / THE SLAYING OF ORLAM / THE PROPOSALS / THE DEATH OF FORGEMEN; lines 7268-7407 confidence: high
Cuchulain rushes Larine, knocks away his weapons, crushes and shakes him, hurls him across the camp into Lugaid's hands, and Larine thereafter lives in pain and weakness until the maiming brings his death.
Larine is described as the only man to escape combat with Cuchulain on the raid, but the escape is bad and the maiming later causes his death.
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