the chief of the Bilber tribe (Tale 15)

Also known as: the chief · Family: Bilber tribe · Role: chief · First appears: Tale 15 · Narahdarn The Bat

Life events

The mother told the chief her daughters were missing, and he ordered young men to follow Narahdarn's tracks.(Tale 15 · Narahdarn The Bat)
- With: the mother of the Bilbers (Tale 15)
- “The chief of her tribe listened to her. When she had finished and begun to wail for her daughters, whom she thought she would see no more, he said, ‘Mother of the Bilbers, your daughters shall be avenged if aught has happened to them at the hands of Narahdarn. Fresh are his tracks, and the young men of your tribe shall follow whence they have come, and finding what Narahdarn has done, swiftly shall they return.’”
The young men returned with news of the Bilbers' fate.(Tale 15 · Narahdarn The Bat · 📍 the camp)
- With: the first wife (Tale 15) the second wife (Tale 15)
- “Then forth went the fleetest footed and the keenest eyed of the young men of the tribe. Ere long, back they came to the camp with the news of the fate of the Bilbers.”
The Bilbers were avenged when the men seized Narahdarn and threw him into a fire, where he died.(Tale 15 · Narahdarn The Bat)
- With: Narahdarn the first wife (Tale 15) the second wife (Tale 15) the mother of the Bilbers (Tale 15)
- “These quickly seized him and hurled him into the madly-leaping fire before him, where he perished in the flames. And so were the Bilbers avenged.”

with the mother of the Bilbers (Tale 15) (The mother addresses the chief as “my relation,” indicating kinship without specifying its type.) “Now speed ye the young men lest the rain fall or the dust blow and the tracks be lost.”

Extracted from the original text of Australian Legendary Tales. Made with Rho MD.