Index
Aarne, Antti 370
Acallam na Senórach 17
accumulation
expressions of 112–13
of violent imperatives 478
Acheron 389
Achilles 402, 425, 426, 428–9, 445, 456, 457,
459, 462, 467, 490, 491, 492, 496–7, 501,
502
active and passive juxtaposed 111
Aed mac Bricc 205 n. 41
Aeschylus 182, 332, 472, 484
Æscingas 376
Æsir 164
Agamemnon 444
Ages, Myth of 23
Agni 266, 268 nn. 98, 100, 270, 272–3
Agnis
̇
t
̇
oma festival 225
Ahi budhnya 237
Ahura Mazda ̄ 136, 163 n. 145, 172, 354
Ahura ̄nı ̄ 139, 285
Aiorai 213, 226
Airyaman 142–3
Aisa 380–1
Ajax 425–6, 445, 454–5, 461, 462, 481
Akmon 342–3
Alagabiae 132 n. 44
Alans 14
Alastor 136
Albanian 6, 7 n. 14, 19
metres 56
Alcaeus, metres 49
Alcis 190
Alcman 226, 342, 354
Alemanni 278
‘all days’ 91
alliteration 58–9, 61, 125, 328, 340, 404 n. 95
all-seeing, all-knowing gods 171–3, 198–9
All Souls Day 394–6
‘all this’= universe 341–2
Alpamysh 439
Alvíssmál 161–2
ambrosia 157–8
‘ambrosial’ song 90
Amphion and Zethos 189–90
Ana, Irish goddess 177–8
Ana ̄hita ̄ 175 n. 39
anaphora 108–10
of relative pronoun 308–9
of ‘thou’ 310–11
Anatolian 5, 7–8, 10–11, 12–13
versification 56–8
‘ancient songs’ 75–6
Andronovo culture 9
Aneirin 17
animal fable 23, 98, 363
animal lifespans 378–9
Anthesteria 213, 394
Anunnaki 162–3
Aotis 226
Apa ̄m napa ̄t 82, 142, 270–2, 276–7
Apaosˇa 257
Apharetidai 190, 232
Aphrodite 186, 221
Api(a), Scythian Earth-goddess 182
Apollo 148–50
apples of immortality 159, 160, 347
Apsarases 284–5, 303
Aran
̇
ya ̄nı ̄ 281
archaism 76
archery 460, 485
contest for bride 433–4, 439–40
metaphorical 45
Archilochus 69, 458, 491
Arcturus 352 n. 41
areal phenomena 21
Ares 136
Arion 31
Aristophanes 356, 358, 391, 415
Armenian 6, 9, 15
metres 51
arms and armour, see weapons
arming scenes 472–3, 486
impregnable armour 157 n. 126, 445
Artemis !οχαιρα 150
Arthurian legend 237, 427, 429, 430, 453, 463,
464
Aryaman, *Aryomen 142–3
‘Aryan’ 6 n. 12, 142
Asˇa 135–6
Asclepius 148
Ásgarð 151, 154, 164
Askr and Embla 376
assemblies 72