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Quote from "Chicken Grethe's Family" (1869)

So this was Marie Grubbe, so strangely does the ball of fortune turn. She did not live to see many more feasts of the Three Kings. Holberg wrote that she died in June, 1716, but he did not write, for he did not know, that when Mother Sören, as they called her, lay dead in Borrehouse, a flock of large black birds flew over the roof in silence. They did not scream, and it was as if they knew that at funerals one must be quiet. As soon as she was in her grave, the birds departed (...)

Source: Jean Hersholt's translation of "Chicken Grethe's Family"

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Registered motifs in this quote:

1. Funeral
2. Grave
3. Twelfth Night, Epiphany

Keywords: Woman, history, death, birds

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