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source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/gods-and-fighting-men-gregory.md
passage_locator:
label: 'PART ONE: THE GODS. / BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE TUATHA DE DANAAN. / CHAPTER
I. THE FIGHT WITH THE FIRBOLGS / CHAPTER II. THE REIGN OF BRES; lines 966-1069'
start: '966'
end: '1069'
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: After the Dagda receives the reward Angus advised him to ask for, the poet
Corpre is poorly hosted by Bres and utters a satire that brings Bres bad luck.
Nuada receives a silver hand from Diancecht and later has his own severed hand
restored by Miach. Diancecht, jealous of Miach's superior healing, kills him;
herbs grow from Miach's grave, and Airmed arranges them by virtue before Diancecht
mixes them up. Nuada is restored to the kingship. Bres, displaced and seeking
revenge, learns from his mother Eri that his father is Elathan of the Fomor, whose
identity is confirmed by a ring; Bres and Eri travel to the Fomor, where contests
are held and Elathan recognizes Bres as his son.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The Dagda asks for the reward Angus had advised, a heifer, and Bres considers
the request foolishly small.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: 'Corpre, a poet of the Tuatha de Danaan, receives poor hospitality at Bres''s
house: a small dark narrow house without fire, furniture, bed, sufficient food,
milk, shelter, or light.'
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: Corpre speaks a negative formula wishing that Bres's prosperity be like the
lack he has experienced.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: After Corpre's satire, Bres has no good luck and declines thereafter; the
passage identifies this as the first satire made in Ireland.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: Diancecht makes Nuada an arm of silver with movement in every finger, giving
him the epithet Nuada of the Silver Hand.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: 'Miach places a cat''s eye in a one-eyed young man''s head, but the eye keeps
catlike habits: it wakes at small movements when the man wants to sleep and sleeps
when he wants to watch.'
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: Miach restores Nuada's own severed hand using a three-day healing process
and a spoken formula, after which Nuada is healed.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: Diancecht is angered by Miach's superior cure, strikes him repeatedly with
a sword, and kills him by cutting out the brain.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: Three hundred and sixty-five herbs grow from Miach's grave, corresponding
to his joints and sinews.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:10
text: Airmed lays out the herbs on her cloak according to their virtues, but Diancecht
mixes them so that their full powers are no longer known.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:11
text: When the Tuatha de Danaan see Nuada restored, they require Bres to give up
the kingship and restore Nuada as king.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:12
text: Bres, angry at being removed, seeks to learn his race from his mother Eri
in order to gather an army against those who displaced him.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:13
text: Eri says Bres's father is Elathan, a king of the Fomor, who once came to her
over a level sea in a great vessel that seemed silver.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:14
text: Elathan appeared as a young yellow-haired man with gold-sewn clothes and five
gold rings around his neck; Eri loved him, wept when he left, and received from
him a ring to give only to the man whose finger it would fit.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: obs:15
text: The ring fits Bres's middle finger, and Eri, Bres, and his people travel from
the hill and strand toward the country of the Fomor.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: obs:16
text: In the Fomor country, the newcomers enter a gathering and are challenged to
contests of hounds and horses; the Tuatha de Danaan hounds and horses beat those
of the Fomor.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: obs:17
text: When Bres reaches for his sword, Elathan recognizes the ring and asks who
Bres is; Eri tells the story and says Bres is Elathan's son.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: The Dagda
description: A figure who completes work and asks for the reward Angus advised.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Angus
description: A figure who had advised the Dagda what reward to ask for.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Bres
description: King whose poor treatment of Corpre precedes bad luck; later removed
from kingship and identified as son of Elathan of the Fomor.
role_refs:
- role:3
- role:4
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:11
- ev:12
- ev:15
- ev:17
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Corpre son of Etain
description: A poet of the Tuatha de Danaan who comes seeking hospitality and utters
the satire against Bres.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Nuada
description: A king whose arm was struck off; he receives a silver hand and later
his own hand is restored, after which he regains the kingship.
role_refs:
- role:7
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
- ev:11
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Diancecht
description: A healer who makes Nuada's silver arm, kills his son Miach out of vexation,
and later mixes the herbs from Miach's grave.
role_refs:
- role:9
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:8
- ev:10
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Miach
description: Son of Diancecht and skilled healer who performs the cat-eye replacement
and restores Nuada's severed hand before being killed by Diancecht.
role_refs:
- role:9
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: One-eyed young man
description: A young man at Teamhair who asks Miach to replace his lost eye and
receives a cat's eye.
role_refs:
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Airmed
description: Sister of Miach who arranges the herbs from his grave according to
their virtues.
role_refs:
- role:13
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Eri daughter of Delbaith
description: Mother of Bres who tells him his Fomor paternity and recounts her encounter
with Elathan.
role_refs:
- role:14
- role:15
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
- ev:14
- ev:15
- ev:17
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Elathan son of Dalbaech
description: A king of the Fomor, Bres's father, who came to Eri in a silver-seeming
vessel and later recognizes Bres by a ring.
role_refs:
- role:16
- role:17
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:14
- ev:17
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: Tuatha de Danaan
description: People associated with Corpre, Nuada, Bres's followers, and the assembly
that removes Bres and restores Nuada.
role_refs:
- role:18
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:11
- ev:16
- id: fig:13
name_or_label: Fomor
description: People of Elathan's country who hold gatherings and contests with Bres's
company.
role_refs:
- role:19
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:16
roles:
- id: role:1
label: reward seeker
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The Dagda asks for a reward after finishing his work.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:2
label: advisor
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Angus had instructed the Dagda what reward to request.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:3
label: inhospitable ruler
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Corpre is poorly received at the king's house, and the satire is directed
at Bres's prosperity.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:4
label: deposed king
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Bres is required to give up the kingship after Nuada is healed.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: role:5
label: recognized son
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The ring fits Bres and Elathan recognizes it before Eri identifies Bres as
his son.
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- ev:17
- id: role:6
label: poet and satirist
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Corpre is named a poet and speaks the first satire in Ireland.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: role:7
label: wounded and restored king
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Nuada's arm is replaced and later his own hand is restored; he is put back
in the kingship.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
- ev:11
- id: role:8
label: silver-handed figure
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Nuada receives an arm of silver and is called Nuada of the Silver Hand.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:9
label: healer
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- fig:6
- fig:7
basis: Diancecht makes Nuada's silver arm; Miach is described as better at healing
and performs cures.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: role:10
label: jealous killer and obstructer of herbal knowledge
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: Diancecht kills Miach after seeing his better cure and later mixes up the
herbs Airmed arranged.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:10
- id: role:11
label: slain superior healer
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Miach performs cures beyond his father and is killed by Diancecht.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: role:12
label: recipient of animal eye transplant
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The young man receives a cat's eye from Miach.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:13
label: arranger of medicinal herbs
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Airmed spreads and orders the herbs according to their virtues.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: role:14
label: mother and genealogical informant
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: Eri tells Bres who his father and race are.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
- id: role:15
label: beloved of a mysterious visitor
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: Eri gives her love to Elathan after refusing her own people's young men and
weeps when he leaves.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: role:16
label: Fomor king and father
assigned_to:
- fig:11
basis: Eri identifies Elathan as a king of the Fomor and Bres's father.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:17
- id: role:17
label: giver of recognition token
assigned_to:
- fig:11
basis: Elathan gives Eri a ring to give only to the man it fits, and later recognizes
the ring.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:17
- id: role:18
label: people restoring Nuada
assigned_to:
- fig:12
basis: The Tuatha de Danaan assemble and require Bres to yield the kingship to Nuada.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: role:19
label: otherworldly or foreign host group in passage
assigned_to:
- fig:13
basis: The Fomor are Elathan's people and host gatherings and contests when Bres
arrives.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:16
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: withheld fire and light
literal_form: absence of fire and light in Corpre's lodging
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:4
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- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: sym:2
label: insufficient milk
literal_form: milk not enough for a calf to grow on
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs:
- milk
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:3
label: silver hand
literal_form: arm of silver with movement in every finger
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:4
label: cat's eye
literal_form: eye of a cat placed in a young man's head
associated_figures:
- fig:7
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:5
label: restored severed hand
literal_form: Nuada's own struck-off hand restored joint to joint and sinew to sinew
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:6
label: blackened bulrushes
literal_form: bulrushes blackened in the fire and placed on Nuada's restored hand
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:7
label: sword blows
literal_form: Diancecht's sword striking Miach's head until the brain is cut out
associated_figures:
- fig:6
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:8
label: herbs from grave
literal_form: three hundred and sixty-five herbs growing from Miach's grave
associated_figures:
- fig:7
- fig:9
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: sym:9
label: cloak as herbal sorting surface
literal_form: Airmed's cloak with herbs laid on it according to virtue
associated_figures:
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: sym:10
label: silver-seeming sea vessel
literal_form: great vessel seeming to be of silver coming over a level sea
associated_figures:
- fig:10
- fig:11
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: sym:11
label: gold rings and recognition ring
literal_form: five gold rings on Elathan's neck and a ring from his hand that fits
Bres
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:10
- fig:11
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
- ev:17
- id: sym:12
label: hounds and horses in challenge contests
literal_form: hounds and horses matched in contests between Bres's company and the
Fomor
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:12
- fig:13
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Dagda's requested reward
summary: After completing his work, the Dagda asks for the reward Angus had advised,
and Bres judges the request small and foolish.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Corpre's inhospitable reception and satire
summary: Corpre is lodged and fed inadequately at Bres's house, then utters a satire
that brings Bres decline and is identified as the first satire in Ireland.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:12
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:3
label: Nuada receives the silver hand
summary: Diancecht fashions a movable silver arm for Nuada, who becomes known as
Nuada of the Silver Hand.
figure_refs:
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:4
label: Miach's cat-eye cure
summary: Miach gives a one-eyed young man a cat's eye, but the transplanted eye
behaves inconveniently according to animal habits.
figure_refs:
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:5
label: Miach restores Nuada's severed hand
summary: Miach replaces the silver hand with Nuada's own severed hand through a
three-day healing process involving formulaic speech and blackened bulrushes.
figure_refs:
- fig:5
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:6
label: Diancecht kills Miach
summary: Diancecht, angered by his son's superior cure, strikes Miach with a sword
multiple times and finally kills him by a wound no physician can heal.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: scene:7
label: Herbs from Miach's grave are disordered
summary: Medicinal herbs grow from Miach's grave; Airmed sorts them according to
virtue, but Diancecht mixes them so their complete powers are lost.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:8
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: scene:8
label: Nuada restored and Bres deposed
summary: The Tuatha de Danaan see that Nuada is fully healed, assemble at Teamhair,
force Bres to surrender the kingship, and restore Nuada.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:5
- fig:12
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: scene:9
label: Bres learns his Fomor paternity
summary: Bres asks Eri about his race; she tells of Elathan's arrival over the sea,
their union, the token ring, and the ring fitting Bres.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:10
- fig:11
symbol_refs:
- sym:10
- sym:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
- ev:14
- ev:15
- id: scene:10
label: Journey to the Fomor and paternal recognition
summary: Bres, Eri, and their people travel to the Fomor, win hound and horse contests,
and Elathan recognizes Bres by the ring when Bres reaches for his sword.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:10
- fig:11
- fig:12
- fig:13
symbol_refs:
- sym:11
- sym:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- ev:16
- ev:17
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: poetic satire causes a ruler's decline
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
- royal_legitimacy
basis: The poet Corpre's satire follows Bres's failure of hospitality, after which
Bres has no good luck and goes down forever after.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage names satire and decline but does not explicitly frame the
effect as divine judgment; taxonomy mapping is interpretive and should be reviewed.
- id: motif:2
label: restored bodily wholeness legitimates return to kingship
taxonomy_refs:
- royal_legitimacy
basis: Nuada's arm is replaced and then fully restored; once the Tuatha de Danaan
see him as well as before, they depose Bres and restore Nuada as king.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
- ev:11
confidence: high
cautions: The broader reason for Nuada's original loss of kingship is outside this
passage, but the passage directly connects his restored health with restoration
to kingship.
- id: motif:3
label: superior healer slain by jealous healer
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Diancecht is vexed by Miach's better cure and kills him with repeated sword
blows.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: No available taxonomy family directly matches this pattern.
- id: motif:4
label: medicinal knowledge arises from a slain body and is lost by being mixed
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
- death_rebirth
basis: Herbs grow from Miach's grave in the number of his joints and sinews; Airmed
arranges them by virtue, but Diancecht mixes them so their powers are not fully
known.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
confidence: medium
cautions: The growth from the grave supports a death-to-medicinal-knowledge pattern;
the death_rebirth taxonomy fit is approximate because Miach himself does not return
to life.
- id: motif:5
label: recognition of hidden paternity by a token ring
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_parent_child
- sacred_exchange
basis: Elathan gives Eri a ring to give only to the person it fits; it fits Bres,
and Elathan recognizes the ring before Eri identifies Bres as his son.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
- ev:17
confidence: high
cautions: The passage establishes paternity and token recognition, though it does
not call the ring sacred.
- id: motif:6
label: mysterious sea-borne lover from another people
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
basis: Elathan comes to Eri over a level sea in a silver-seeming vessel, appears
adorned with gold, receives her love, and departs the same way.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:14
confidence: medium
cautions: The visitor is a Fomor king, not explicitly described as a deity in this
passage; the taxonomy mapping depends on the broader mythic context and should
be reviewed.
- id: motif:7
label: challenge contests at arrival among another people
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: When Bres's company arrives among the Fomor, strangers are given friendly
challenges, and hounds and horses are matched in contests.
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
confidence: high
cautions: No available taxonomy family directly matches the contest pattern.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 966-970
quote_or_summary: The Dagda finishes his work, asks for the reward Angus advised,
and Bres thinks asking only for a heifer is foolish.
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 972-977
quote_or_summary: Corpre son of Etain, poet of the Tuatha de Danaan, comes seeking
hospitality and is put in a dark narrow house without fire, furniture, or bed,
and receives three small dry cakes.
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: quote
locator: lines 978-982
quote_or_summary: '"Without food ready on a dish; without milk enough for a calf
to grow on; without shelter; without light in the darkness of night; without enough
to pay a story-teller; may that be the prosperity of Bres."'
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:4
type: summary
locator: lines 984-987
quote_or_summary: From that day Bres has no good luck and declines; the passage
says this was the first satire made in Ireland.
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 989-993
quote_or_summary: Diancecht makes Nuada a silver arm with movement in every finger;
Nuada is thereafter called Nuada Argat-lamh, of the Silver Hand.
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 995-1005
quote_or_summary: Miach, son of Diancecht, gives a one-eyed young man a cat's eye;
the eye reacts to mice, birds, and rushes when he wants sleep and sleeps when
he wants to watch.
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: summary
locator: lines 1007-1015
quote_or_summary: Miach sets Nuada's own severed hand back in place, says "Joint
to joint, and sinew to sinew," treats him over three days, and Nuada is healed.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/gods-and-fighting-men-gregory.md
rights_note: Public domain source; brief quote within summary from public domain.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 1017-1023
quote_or_summary: Diancecht is vexed at Miach's better cure, repeatedly strikes
him with a sword, finally cuts out his brain, and Miach dies and is buried.
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 1025-1027
quote_or_summary: Herbs grow from Miach's grave, three hundred and sixty-five in
number, corresponding to his joints and sinews.
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 1027-1031
quote_or_summary: Airmed spreads her cloak and lays out the herbs according to their
virtues; Diancecht mixes them up so no one knows all their right powers.
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 1033-1037
quote_or_summary: Seeing Nuada restored, the Tuatha de Danaan gather at Teamhair,
make Bres give up the kingship, and put Nuada back as king.
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 1039-1042
quote_or_summary: Bres is vexed, thinks how to avenge himself and gather an army,
and asks his mother Eri to tell him his race.
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 1044-1048
quote_or_summary: Eri says Bres's father is Elathan, a Fomor king, who came to her
over a level sea in a great vessel that seemed silver.
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 1048-1054
quote_or_summary: Elathan appears as a yellow-haired young man with gold-sewn clothes
and five gold neck-rings; Eri loves him, weeps when he leaves, and receives a
ring to give only to the man it fits.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/gods-and-fighting-men-gregory.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:15
type: summary
locator: lines 1056-1060
quote_or_summary: Eri brings out the ring; it fits Bres's middle finger, and Eri,
Bres, and his people set out from the hill and strand to the country of the Fomor.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/gods-and-fighting-men-gregory.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:16
type: summary
locator: lines 1062-1068
quote_or_summary: In the Fomor country, Bres's company comes to a gathering; as
a friendly challenge, hounds and horses are matched, and the Tuatha de Danaan
animals win.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/celtic-irish/project-gutenberg/gods-and-fighting-men-gregory.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:17
type: summary
locator: lines 1069-1073
quote_or_summary: When Bres puts his hand to his sword, Elathan recognizes the ring,
asks who the young man is, and Eri tells the story and identifies Bres as Elathan's
son.
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: high
notes: Extraction is based only on the supplied passage. Some taxonomy assignments
are approximate because the available taxonomy list does not contain exact labels
for satire, healing rivalry, or recognition-token motifs. No comparison claims
were added because the passage itself does not make explicit comparative claims.
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: |-
Line references use the supplied locator range. Evidence ev:17 extends to the end of the supplied passage although the user locator ends at 1069; the final prose sentence in the passage has been treated as part of the provided passage text.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:celtic-irish-gods-and-fighting-men-gregory-gutenberg__l966-l1069
passage_sha256=9a26f7147456eb16fdb0871be814479073fcb6827f6bc22b684586d479153a25