Travelling myths or Indo-European tradition? The Irano-Scandinavian correspondences
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Publisher:Stockholm University Press
By: Anders Hultgård
Table of contents
The many interfaces of Indo-European
The distribution of goods and lordship in Indo-European: ‘Givers of goods’ and Vedic vásu savi-, Toch. B saswe ‘lord’, and Hittite aššu šuwe-
Hermes and Prometheus in Scandinavia – or Thor and Thjalfi in Greece: Reconstructing an Indo-European aetiological myth about a prehistoric steppe ritual
Linnaean linguistics: ‘Bear’, ‘horse’, ‘wolf’ and the Indo-European phylogeny from a zoographical perspective
Travelling myths or Indo-European tradition? The Irano-Scandinavian correspondences
Issues with the steppe hypothesis: An archaeological perspective. Iconography, mythology and language in Neolithic and Early Bronze Age southern Scandinavia
The inverse of praise: Epigraphic practices of Indo-European cursing
The night sky of the Indo-Europeans
Fighting the winter: Indo-European rituals and cosmogony in cold climates
Celto-Germanic and North-West Indo-European vocabulary: Resonances in myth and rock art iconography
The Indo-European vocabulary of dairy products
Priests, oxen and the Indo-European taxonomy of wealth in the Iguvine Tables
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PDF ISBN: 978-91-7635-219-9 | E-Pub ISBN: 978-91-7635-220-5 | Hardback ISBN: 978-91-7635-218-2 | Mobi ISBN: 978-91-7635-221-2 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/bcn
Publisher: Stockholm University Press
Publication date: 2024
Language: English
Pages: 288