The romance of Thomas the Rhymer: a May morning under the Eildon Hills. A lady of another country on a dapple-grey horse, a beauty spent at a touch, three days of darkness and water under the hill, fruit that must not be eaten, five roads, a hall where he may speak to no one, three days that were three years, the teind to hell, and a tongue that can never lie. The sixth tale in Samhain, the series.
A faithful retelling for readers about ten and up, page by page. Best read under a tree.
Who does what — grouped by role, linked to the movements where they appear, and to one another.
The cast as a graph — every relationship in the tale, force-laid. Hover a node to light up its ties; click to open its card.
Drag/scroll/pinch to explore. Node size marks principals; colour marks role. Built straight from the relationship edges in the character cards.
The tale laid against Propp's 31 narrative functions — each beat linking to the movement that realises it.
Drag/scroll/pinch to explore; click a node to jump to its detail below.
The tale laid against Greimas's actantial model — the functional structure of wanting beneath the plot. Not the social web of who-knows-whom, but the single engine of desire: who wants what, who sends it, who aids and who blocks.
The tale by call-number: the Thompson Motif-Index, Christiansen's Migratory Legends, and the native Irish tale-genres.
One graph, all the layers. The ten movements run as a spine; characters, motifs, story-functions, type-scenes and the Object of desire hang from the moments they touch — and whatever cross-cuts the tale is pulled toward the centre.
Movements I–X run as the heather spine. Hover a node to light its threads; click any node for detail. Toggle the layers above to isolate one kind of connection.