Man swells from excessive grief

Motif

Man swells from excessive grief.

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Other extraordinary events. · view the constellation · filed as F1041.21.2

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IcelandicEgils saga in ASB 3 (1894) ch. LXXVIII 14ff., Völsunga saga ch. 31 (29), Boberg.

Within the index

Filed under Reactions to excessive grief. (Cf. F1041.1.1.)

Filed beside it

Illness from excessive grief Refusal to eat from excessive grief Man cries at hearing of friend's death Man senseless from grief at hearing of father's death; one doesn't feel that he cuts himself with his knife, the other presses dice so that he bleeds Tearing hair and clothes from excessive grief Swooning from grief

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