Beheading game
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beheading-game-189-8107243
title:
Beheading game
text:
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 makes this possible, is only revealed when he retrieves his severed head. When the hero submits himself to the return blow, he is rewarded for his
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description:
Motif of medieval romance
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beheading_game
date created:
2019-05-26T11:25:34Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T06:31:02Z
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