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Arrogant farmer allows none to ride his precious horse without permission. He kills the man who does it, but is in revenge deprived of most of his goods.

Reversal of fortune. · Pride brought low. · Arrogance repaid. · view the constellation · filed as L434

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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  • IcelandicHrafnkels saga Freysgods ch. 2ff. (ed. F. S. Cawley) (Cambridge, Mass., 1932).
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Filed under Arrogance repaid.

Filed beside it
Arrogant mistress repaid in kind by her loverImpoverished husband begs from wife's new husband. He has formerly refused this man charitySelf-righteousness punished

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