Asuras 160, 163
As ́vamedha 61, 63, 161, 417, 418
As ́vins 146, 186–9, 227, 230, 236, 314, 419
identified with Morning/Evening Stars 234
A ̄tar 266–7, 270
Atharvaveda 13
Atreidai 232
Attila 65, 443, 454, 496 n. 145, 502–3
Audacht Morainn 421, 424
Auðhumla 358
Augmented Triad 117–19
Ausˇra 218
Avesta 14, 304
martial episodes 447
metres 50
Azˇi Daha ̄ka 260, 266–7
Aziruxs 233
Bacchylides 37, 64, 271, 325
‘back’ of heaven, earth, sea 343–4
Baldr, death of 370 n. 84, 390, 496
ballad style 68
bard 27–8, 64–5, 66–7, 69
bath, heroes killed in 444
battle narrative 114–16, 470–95
altercations 476–7
birds, dogs feast on corpses 476, 491–2
clash of shields 479–80
compound polyptoton 481
corpses block waterways 491
darkness covers scene 480–1
exhortations 477–9
fleeing when leader killed 490
gods assist 483–4
missiles darken sky 480
single combat 486–7
time frame 473–5
Bear (constellation) 351–2
Behaghel’s Law 117, 328
Ben Nevis 343
Beowulf 18
Beowulf 402, 411, 444, 462, 477, 490
funeral 496–7, 499, 503
berserks 449–50
Bhı ̄ma 456–7, 460, 482, 489, 495
Biarkamál 18
binding spells 332–3
birds
bring elixir 158–60
feast on battle carnage 476, 491–2, 499
long-lived 378–9
sleepless 99
bisexual giant 356–9, 376–7
Bithynians 170, 200, 395
Black Sea, water level 8
blindness cured by divine Twins 230
blood
drunk by earth 491
enemy’s blood drunk 492–3
rain of 488
Bóand (Boyne) 276
boar-hunts 430
‘bone to bone’ 336–8
‘bones’ of Earth 344
bonfires 214
bow 433, 439–40, 485
Boyan 65, 146
Brahman 419
‘branches’=fingers 82
Br
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haddevata ̄ 13
bridge to land of dead 390, 392
Brigantia, St Brigit 218, 219, 222–3, 337
Britain as land of dead 390
Brontes 136, 248
‘brother to brother’ 113
brother could not recognize brother 480–1
brother/sister metaphor 365–6, 371
Brynhild 501
bull among herd simile 97–8
Bundahisˇn 358
byliny 19, 75, 175, 278, 468, 495Cacus 261–2, 316
Caeculus 268
Caesar
on Gauls 16, 27, 30, 71, 72, 148, 283, 359,
377 n. 6, 407, 497
on Germans 197, 268, 448
cakes, solar 214–15, 226, 236
Calin, Didier 169 n. 15
call for attention, poet’s 92–3
Camenae 288
Campanile, Enrico 4, 469
Cantismerta 381 n. 19
Canute’s anti-pagan edict 268, 278
Capaneus 464, 484, 500
Carmen Saliare 309
catalogues 70, 118, 359–60, 470–1
catechisms 360–2
Cath Maige Tuired 164
cattle 30–1, 184; see also cows
cattle raids 451–2
Celts in Classical sources 16, 27, 64–5, 72,
190, 212, 280 n. 2, 424, 468, 487, 493
Centaurs 192, 285 n. 14, 293, 445, 461
centum languages 6
Cerberus 392
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