Surviving blood brother to watch three nights in grave-mound

Motif

Surviving blood brother to watch three nights in grave-mound.

Society. · Other social relationships. · Friendship. · view the constellation · filed as P312.3

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

IcelandicEgils saga ok Asm., Lagerholm 28 (cf. introd. xxiv–xxix).

Within the index

Filed under Blood-brotherhood. Friends take oath of brotherhood by means of mixing their blood.

Filed beside it

Saint makes blood covenant with animals. (Cf. B279.)Drinking mixture of blood, milk, and wine as pledge of covenant Sworn brethren and blood brethren avenge each other

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