Indo-European Poetry and Myth

Epanadiplosis We now come to a series of figures involving repeated words. The first and simplest is iteration: an urgent or emo ...

| he waters the ground, earth and sky’; AV 6. 42. 1 f. There are several examples in Homer, for instance: Lνδρομα ́ χη,θυγα ́ τη ...

She has not gone to one of her sisters-in-law or yours, or to the temple of Athena, where the other women of Troy propitiate the ...

304); Vaf þrúðnismál 3. 1–3fio ̨lð ec fór, fio ̨lð ec freistaða, fio ̨lð ec reynda regin, ‘much I have travelled, much have I ex ...

With *dus-: AV 4. 17. 5 = 7. 23. 1 daús ̇ vapnyam ̇ daúrjı ̄vityam; 9. 2. 3 dus ̇ váp- nyam ... duritám ca; Y. 49. 11 dusˇx sˇaθ ...

devám márta ̄sah ̇ , ‘(we have chosen you,) mortals a god’, cf. 4. 2. 10, 5. 2, 11. 5; 1; Il. 2. 821 θεα` βροτω  ι ε1νηθε ...

distinguished: in elative expressions; to express accumulation or continuity; and to express the matching status or reciprocal r ...

I made shield upon shield’; RV 1. 53. 7 yudha ̄ ́ yúdham... pura ̄ ́ púram,‘fight after fight... citadel after citadel’; 2. 24. ...

Friend to friend:^124 RV 1. 26. 3 sákha ̄ sákhye, cf. 1. 53. 2, 75. 4; 3. 4. 1, etc.; Y. 62. 8 haxa hasˇe ̄, cf. Vd. 18. 26; Hes ...

δο ́ ρυ δουρ, σα ́ κο σα ́ κεϊ προθελ3μνωι ‘covering spear with spear, shield with layered shield’; 16. 215 α, σπ? Eρ’α, σπ? ...

Nor does it come into question for the verse employed more than once by the guslar Salih Ugljanin: konj do konja, junak do junak ...

The best thing is water; gold shines like a blazing fire in the night above all proud wealth; but if you yearn to sing of games, ...

If he has seen something with his eyes, or taken something with his hand, or trodden something with his powerful foot. (CTH 760 ...

Sometimes the trio of names is preceded by the announcement that they are three. There is one especially common type, where thre ...

3 Gods and Goddesses The Indo-Europeans, it is clear, spoke both about ‘the gods’ collectively and about gods as individuals. Th ...

because it originated as a plural collective term for ‘gods and goddesses’; in Germanic the neuter was used for groups including ...

Vedic poets of thirty-three, or in one passage 3,339. Boards of twelve make sporadic appearances in various cultures, but they l ...

heaven. Indra is said to be prathamé víyomani, deva ̄ ́na ̄m ̇ sádane, ‘in the fore- most heaven, the seat of the gods’ (RV 8. 1 ...

gods (3. 6. 9; 8. 28. 1, 35. 3) or the three cohorts (6. 51. 2, 52. 15; 7. 35. 11; 10. 2, 63. 2, 65. 9). In the Atharvaveda the ...

Eνθρωπο (of obscure etymology), but in the poetic language mortals can be referred to as $πι-χθο ́ νιοι, literally ‘those on ea ...