batch.motif.celtic-irish-gods-and-fighting-men-gregory-gutenberg-l10725-l10807
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record_id: batch.motif.celtic-irish-gods-and-fighting-men-gregory-gutenberg-l10725-l10807
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/gods-and-fighting-men-gregory.md
passage_locator:
label: 'BOOK SIX: DIARMUID. / CHAPTER I. BIRTH OF DIARMUID / CHAPTER II. HOW DIARMUID
GOT HIS LOVE-SPOT / CHAPTER III. THE DAUGHTER OF KING UNDER-WAVE; lines 10725-10807'
start: '10725'
end: '10807'
translation: Gods and Fighting Men
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: Diarmuid reproaches the woman after the pups are gone; she and the house
vanish, and he vows to search for her. Carrying the dead greyhound, he follows
reports of her path to the strand, takes a ship and then a boat that goes under
the sea, and reaches Land-under-Wave. There he gathers three drops of blood, learns
that the daughter of King Under-Wave has returned sick after seven years of enchantment,
is smuggled to her in a sheaf of rushes, and reunites with her. She says she can
only be healed by three draughts from the cup of the King of the Plain of Wonder.
Diarmuid sets out, reaches a boundary river, and is helped across by a low-sized
reddish man who offers to accompany him.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
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- id: obs:1
text: A greyhound meets Diarmuid at night and gives three terrible yells after all
the pups are gone.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Diarmuid angrily says the woman would not have let the pup go if she remembered
how he found her; after he asks forgiveness, the house and woman disappear, and
he wakes on bare ground.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: Diarmuid says he will search everywhere until he finds the woman again.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: Diarmuid finds the greyhound dead and carries her on his shoulder because
of his love for her.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: A cowherd reports seeing a woman walking hard toward the strand on the previous
morning.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: Diarmuid follows the path to the strand, leaps onto a ship, reaches land,
sleeps on a hillside, and wakes to find the ship gone.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: Diarmuid boards a boat with the greyhound; the boat goes over the sea and
then below it, and he finds himself on a plain.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: Diarmuid finds three drops of blood on the plain and puts them in a napkin,
saying the greyhound lost them.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:9
text: A woman gathering rushes identifies the place as Land-under-Wave.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:10
text: The rush-gathering woman says the daughter of King Under-Wave has come home
after seven years under enchantment and is sick, and that a bed of rushes is most
wholesome for her.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:11
text: The rush-gathering woman hides Diarmuid in a sheaf of rushes and carries him
to the room of the king's daughter.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:12
text: Diarmuid and the daughter of King Under-Wave take one another's hands and
are joyful at their meeting.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:13
text: The daughter says three parts of her sickness are gone, but that each time
she thought of Diarmuid on her journey she lost a drop of the blood of her heart.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:14
text: Diarmuid offers the three drops of blood in a napkin as a healing drink, but
she says she lacks the one thing she wants.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:15
text: The daughter says the desired thing is three draughts from the cup of the
King of Magh an Ionganaidh, the Plain of Wonder, and that no man has ever got
it.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:16
text: The daughter says the Plain of Wonder lies beyond a little river that would
take a ship with a following wind a year and a day to sail.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:17
text: At the river, a low-sized reddish man tells Diarmuid to put his foot in the
palm of his hand and carries him across.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: obs:18
text: The reddish man knows Diarmuid is going to take the cup from the King of the
Plain of Wonder and says he will go with him.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Diarmuid
description: The hero who loses the woman, searches for her, travels under the sea
to Land-under-Wave, reunites with the king's daughter, and sets out to get the
cup of the Plain of Wonder.
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- role:1
- role:2
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- ev:2
- ev:5
- ev:10
- ev:12
- ev:14
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description: A woman who disappears from Diarmuid and is later found as the daughter
of King Under-Wave, returned home sick after seven years under enchantment.
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- role:3
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:8
- ev:10
- ev:12
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Greyhound
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and is carried by Diarmuid.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:5
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Cowherd
description: A cowherd who tells Diarmuid he saw a woman going toward the strand.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Rush-gathering woman
description: A woman in Land-under-Wave who gathers rushes, explains the princess's
illness, and carries Diarmuid hidden in rushes to the princess.
role_refs:
- role:6
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: King Under-Wave
description: The father of the sick daughter in Land-under-Wave; his country borders
the way toward the Plain of Wonder.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:13
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Physicians
description: Physicians gathered to treat the daughter of King Under-Wave, though
none can do her any good.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: King of Magh an Ionganaidh / King of the Plain of Wonder
description: The king whose cup holds the three draughts desired for the princess's
healing.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:14
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Low-sized reddish man
description: A reddish man standing in the middle of the river who carries Diarmuid
across and offers to accompany him to get the cup.
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- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
roles:
- id: role:1
label: Searcher for vanished beloved
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Diarmuid vows to search everywhere for the vanished woman and follows her
path.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:2
label: Questing hero
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Diarmuid travels under the sea and then sets out to obtain the cup from the
King of the Plain of Wonder.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:12
- ev:14
- id: role:3
label: Vanished beloved
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- fig:2
basis: The woman disappears from Diarmuid, and he searches for her until they reunite.
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- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:10
- id: role:4
label: Sick enchanted princess
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- fig:2
basis: She is identified as the daughter of King Under-Wave, returned after seven
years under enchantment and suffering sickness.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:10
- id: role:5
label: Animal companion
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The greyhound remains central to Diarmuid's loss and journey, and he carries
her after finding her dead.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:5
- id: role:6
label: Informant
assigned_to:
- fig:4
- fig:5
basis: The cowherd reports the woman's route, and the rush-gathering woman names
Land-under-Wave and explains the princess's condition.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: role:7
label: Concealing helper
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- fig:5
basis: She hides Diarmuid in rushes and carries him to the daughter of King Under-Wave.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: role:8
label: Otherworld ruler
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- fig:6
basis: He is king of Land-under-Wave, the undersea country where his daughter has
returned.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: role:9
label: Ineffective healers
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The physicians are gathered, but none can help the sick daughter.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:10
label: Possessor of desired cup
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The princess says the necessary draughts are from his cup.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: role:11
label: Boundary-crossing helper
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: The reddish man carries Diarmuid across the difficult river and offers to
accompany him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
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label: Greyhound
literal_form: Dead greyhound carried on Diarmuid's shoulder
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- fig:1
- fig:3
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evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: sym:2
label: Sea and undersea passage
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- fig:1
- fig:3
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- water
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- ev:5
- id: sym:3
label: Land-under-Wave
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- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:5
- fig:6
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- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: sym:4
label: Three drops of blood
literal_form: Three drops of blood collected in a napkin; later identified as drops
of the princess's heart-blood
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: sym:5
label: Rushes
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- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: sym:6
label: Cup of the Plain of Wonder
literal_form: Cup of the King of Magh an Ionganaidh, from which three draughts are
required
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:14
- id: sym:7
label: Boundary river
literal_form: Little river between the country of King Under-Wave and the Plain
of Wonder
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:14
- id: sym:8
label: Palm of the red man's hand
literal_form: The red man's palm used as the means by which Diarmuid crosses the
river
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Reproach and disappearance
summary: After the greyhound yells and the pups are gone, Diarmuid reproaches the
woman; when he asks forgiveness, the house and woman vanish, and he wakes on bare
ground.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Search to the strand and sea transport
summary: Diarmuid finds the greyhound dead, carries her, learns from a cowherd that
the woman went toward the strand, and boards a ship that leaves him on another
shore.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:3
label: Descent below the sea
summary: Diarmuid enters a boat with the greyhound; the boat goes over and below
the sea, bringing him to a plain where he finds drops of blood.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: scene:4
label: Land-under-Wave and concealed entry
summary: A rush-gathering woman names the place as Land-under-Wave, reports the
princess's sickness, and carries Diarmuid hidden in rushes to the princess's room.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: scene:5
label: Reunion and healing need
summary: Diarmuid and the daughter of King Under-Wave joyfully take hands; she says
the blood drops came from her heart and that she needs three draughts from the
cup of the King of the Plain of Wonder.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:12
- id: scene:6
label: Boundary crossing toward the Plain of Wonder
summary: Diarmuid reaches the river boundary, cannot find a crossing, and is carried
across by a low-sized reddish man who offers to accompany him.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
- sym:8
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:14
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Journey under the sea to an otherworld realm
taxonomy_refs:
- hero_descent
basis: Diarmuid travels by boat over and below the sea and reaches the plain identified
as Land-under-Wave.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: The passage describes descent below the sea rather than a conventional
underworld of the dead.
- id: motif:2
label: Search for vanished beloved
taxonomy_refs:
- stolen_beloved
basis: The woman vanishes after Diarmuid's reproach, and he vows to search everywhere
until he finds her, eventually reuniting with the daughter of King Under-Wave.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:10
confidence: medium
cautions: The beloved is not explicitly stolen in this passage; she vanishes and
returns to her own land.
- id: motif:3
label: Otherworld princess as beloved
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
basis: The woman sought by Diarmuid is revealed in Land-under-Wave as the daughter
of King Under-Wave, and she and Diarmuid rejoice at their meeting.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:10
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage identifies her as a king's daughter in an otherworldly land,
but does not explicitly call her divine.
- id: motif:4
label: Quest for healing draught from guarded cup
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
basis: The princess says she can be healed only by three draughts from the cup of
the King of the Plain of Wonder, and Diarmuid sets out to get it.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:14
confidence: high
cautions: The passage begins the quest but does not include the acquisition of the
cup.
- id: motif:5
label: Supernatural helper at boundary water
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: At a river that Diarmuid cannot cross, a low-sized reddish man carries him
across in his palm and offers to accompany him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:14
confidence: high
cautions: No supplied taxonomy reference directly matches this helper motif.
- id: motif:6
label: Heart-blood loss from longing
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The princess says that every time she thought of Diarmuid on her journey,
she lost a drop of the blood of her heart; Diarmuid has collected three drops.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:10
- ev:11
confidence: high
cautions: This is a strong passage-level pattern, but no supplied taxonomy reference
directly matches it.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 10725-10734
quote_or_summary: The greyhound yells after the pups are gone; Diarmuid reproaches
the woman, asks forgiveness, and then the house and woman vanish, leaving him
on bare ground by morning.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/gods-and-fighting-men-gregory.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 10734-10740
quote_or_summary: Diarmuid grieves, vows to search for the woman, finds the greyhound
dead, and carries her on his shoulder because of his love for her.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/gods-and-fighting-men-gregory.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 10740-10745
quote_or_summary: A cowherd tells Diarmuid that he saw a woman walking hard toward
the strand the previous morning.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/gods-and-fighting-men-gregory.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 10746-10753
quote_or_summary: Diarmuid follows the path to the strand, leaps onto a ship, reaches
land, sleeps on a hillside, and wakes to find the ship gone.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/gods-and-fighting-men-gregory.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 10754-10759
quote_or_summary: Diarmuid enters a boat with the greyhound; the boat goes over
the sea and then below it, and he finds himself on a plain.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/gods-and-fighting-men-gregory.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 10759-10764
quote_or_summary: Diarmuid finds three drops of blood, puts them in a napkin, and
says the greyhound lost them.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/gods-and-fighting-men-gregory.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: quote
locator: lines 10765-10772
quote_or_summary: "“It is Land-under-Wave,” said she."
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/gods-and-fighting-men-gregory.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 10772-10779
quote_or_summary: The rush-gathering woman says the daughter of King Under-Wave
has come home after seven years under enchantment, is sick, cannot be helped by
gathered physicians, and finds a bed of rushes most wholesome.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/gods-and-fighting-men-gregory.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 10779-10785
quote_or_summary: The rush-gathering woman says she will put Diarmuid in a sheaf
of rushes, carries him on her back, and lets down the bundle in the princess's
room.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/gods-and-fighting-men-gregory.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 10785-10793
quote_or_summary: The daughter of King Under-Wave calls Diarmuid to her; they take
hands joyfully, and she says much of her sickness is gone but that she lost drops
of heart-blood whenever she thought of him on her journey.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/gods-and-fighting-men-gregory.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: lines 10793-10798
quote_or_summary: Diarmuid says he has the three drops in a napkin and offers them
as a healing drink; she says they will do nothing without the one thing she wants.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/gods-and-fighting-men-gregory.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:12
type: summary
locator: lines 10798-10803
quote_or_summary: The daughter says the needed thing is three draughts from the
cup of the King of Magh an Ionganaidh, the Plain of Wonder, which no man has ever
got.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/gods-and-fighting-men-gregory.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:13
type: summary
locator: lines 10803-10807
quote_or_summary: She says the country is near her father's boundary, but a little
river lies between, and a ship with the wind behind it would take a year and a
day to reach the Plain of Wonder.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/gods-and-fighting-men-gregory.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:14
type: summary
locator: lines 10807-10817
quote_or_summary: Diarmuid reaches the river, cannot find a way across, and is helped
by a low-sized reddish man who has him put his foot in his palm, carries him over,
identifies his errand to get the cup, and offers to go with him.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/gods-and-fighting-men-gregory.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Literal extraction is well supported by the supplied passage. Motif taxonomy
assignments are cautious where the supplied categories are broader than the passage
pattern. No comparison claims were added because the passage itself does not explicitly
support a comparison beyond internal motif identification.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
notes: |-
The supplied locator ends at line 10807, but the provided passage text continues through the red man's offer to accompany Diarmuid; evidence locator ev:14 reflects that continuation as supplied in the request.
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