Unrequited love expressed in song (poem) — Mythoi

Motif

Unrequited love expressed in song (poem).

Sex. · Love. · The scorned lover. · view the constellation · filed as T75.3

Filed across the traditions

English romance Malory X 86
Spanish Childers.

Within the index

Filed under Man scorned by his beloved.

Filed beside it

Suitors ill-treated Mortal woman rejects deity for human lover Scorn of unloved suitor punished Scorned lover kills successful one Lady humiliates lover after he leaves wife for her Scorned lover becomes an anchorite. (Cf. T330.) Divine hand catches scorned lover as he plunges from minaret top to die

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