Motif
Underworld female spinners at inner thresholds
underworld_female_spinners_at_inner_thresholds
A motif of the Fate Figures and Cosmic Weaving family, within the sub-family Fate Sisters, Birth Allotters, and Threshold Spinners. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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estonian
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The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country THE VOYAGE OF THE KALEVIDE / CANTO XVII / THE HEROES AND THE DWARF / CANTO XVIII; lines 3709-3810 confidence: medium
In the hall, Kalevide finds a shade resembling his mother Linda spinning, with water of strength at her right and water of weakness at her left; she offers him the water of strength and he drinks it.
Kalevide encounters two spinning female figures inside Sarvik's halls: a shade resembling Linda and Sarvik's old mother.
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