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Beheading game

The beheading game is a literary trope found in Irish mythology and medieval chivalric romance. The trope consists of a stranger who arrives at a royal court and challenges a hero to an exchange of blows: the hero may decapitate the stranger, but the stranger may then inflict the same wound upon the hero. The supernatural nature of the stranger, which…

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Beheading game

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Beheading game

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related to Arthurian romance · 45
Beheading game → After, All, Arthur, Arthurian, Beset, Besides, Camelot, Caradoc, Caradoc's, Christian, Chrétien, Cú Chulainn's, Fled Bricrenn, For, French, Gareth, Grail, He, Holy Grail, Hunbaut
related to Other iterations · 36
Beheading game → Britain, Carle, Cú Chulainn, Cú Chulainn's, David Lowery's, Dev Patel, English, Fled Bricrenn, Gawain, Greeks, Green Knight, Grey Carle, Iceland, Icelandic, Icelandic Sveins, In, In Yeats's, Ireland, It, King
related to Literary analysis · 33
Beheading game → Additionally, Arthur's, Arthurian, As, At, By, Camelot, Caradoc's, Celtic, Cú Chúlainn, English, Even, For Laura Ashe, Gawain, Gawain's, Gawain-poet, Green Chapel, Green Knight, In, Knight
related to Celtic mythology · 24
Beheading game → Bricriu's Feast, Champion's Portion, Conall Cernach, Conchobar, Consistent, Cú Chulainn, Cú Roí, Fled Bricrenn, For, Irish, Lóegaire Búadach, Nessa, One, Some, Terror, The, The Champion's Bargain, There, Three, Uath
related to history · 18
Beheading game → After, Blows, Carle, Carlisle, English, Exchange, French, From, German, In, Irish, Of, Sir Gawain, Sometimes, Summer, The, The Turke, Winter
related to Game studies · 11
Beheading game → Additionally, As, Both, Dutch, Game, Homo Ludens, In, Johan Huizinga, Luden's, The, This
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Beheading game → literary trope found in Irish mythology and medieval chivalric romance

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game beheading gawain hero knight blow green arthurian death one head return girdle trope cú challenge irish stranger exchange camelot

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Beheading gameis aliterary trope found in Irish mythology and medieval chivalric romance0.90text
thisinstance ofIn tales0.80text
after the initial exchangeinstance ofIn tales0.80text
the stranger asks the hero to behead him once moreinstance ofIn tales0.80text
which then frees the challenger of whatever curse has made him monstrous.Celtic mythologyThe earliest recorded incidence of the trope of the beheading game is in the Fled Bricrenninstance ofIn tales0.80text
La Mule sans freininstance ofthe structure of the original Irish myth remains mostly intact in the French romances0.80text
Hunbautinstance ofthe structure of the original Irish myth remains mostly intact in the French romances0.80text
and Perlesvausinstance ofthe structure of the original Irish myth remains mostly intact in the French romances0.80text
Cú Chúlainninstance ofheroes0.80text
Gawain experience a symbolic death which allows them to be spiritually reborn as better meninstance ofheroes0.80text
warriorsinstance ofheroes0.80text
Beheading gamerelated to Arthurian romanceThere0.60section

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