Motif
women weaving war with human body parts and weapons
women_weaving_war_with_human_body_parts_and_weapons
A motif of the Fate Figures and Cosmic Weaving family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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norse
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The Story of Burnt Njal: From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga CHAPTER CLV. / OF SIGNS AND WONDERS. / CHAPTER CLVI. / BRIAN'S BATTLE.; lines 16912-17069 confidence: high
On Good Friday in Caithness, Daurrud sees twelve riders go to a bower and vanish; looking through a window slit, he sees women inside with a loom whose weights are men's heads, whose warp and weft are men's entrails, whose shuttle is a sword, and whose reels are arrows.
Daurrud sees women at a loom where men's heads serve as weights, entrails as warp and weft, a sword as shuttle, and arrows as reels; the song is titled the Woof of War.
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