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...
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Decapitation (redirect from Beheading)
laws of Saudi Arabia and Yemen permit beheading. Under Sharia, which exclusively applies to Muslims, beheading is also a legal punishment in Zamfara State...
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Arthurian stories, with its plot combining two types of folk motifs: the beheading game, and the exchange of winnings. Written in stanzas of alliterative verse...
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Knight, British Library Tracy, Larissa (2012), "The Real Price of the Beheading Game in SGGK and Malory", Heads Will Roll: Decapitation in the Medieval and...
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the "Beheading Game" is shown is in the Middle Irish tale of Bricriu's Feast. However, the Gawain poets put a spin on the simple beheading game by linking...
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Cycles Mabinogion Matter of Britain Welsh Triads Motifs Otherworld Beheading game Champion's portion Geas Imbas Sovereignty goddess/Loathly lady Magic...
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which 'living heads' preside over feasts and/or speak prophecies. The beheading game is a trope found in Irish myth and Arthurian legend. John T. Koch says...
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Cycles Mabinogion Matter of Britain Welsh Triads Motifs Otherworld Beheading game Champion's portion Geas Imbas Sovereignty goddess/Loathly lady Magic...
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Cycles Mabinogion Matter of Britain Welsh Triads Motifs Otherworld Beheading game Champion's portion Geas Imbas Sovereignty goddess/Loathly lady Magic...
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Cycles Mabinogion Matter of Britain Welsh Triads Motifs Otherworld Beheading game Champion's portion Geas Imbas Sovereignty goddess/Loathly lady Magic...
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