Motif
Unfair or preemptive killing in a duel criticized by another warrior
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A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Moral Causality and Consequence. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
celtic irish
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Gods and Fighting Men CHAPTER VIII. THE BOAR OF BEINN GULBAIN / BOOK EIGHT: CNOC-AN-AIR. / CHAPTER I. TAILC, SON OF TREON / CHAPTER II. MEARGACH'S WIFE; lines 13249-13366 confidence: high
Goll kills Ciardan; Liagan mocks Conan; Conan beheads Liagan before the fight begins; Faolan calls this shameful because Conan did not make a fair fight.
Conan kills Liagan before the fight begins, and Faolan says this was shameful because it was not a fair fight.
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