‘seen and unseen’ 102
seers 103–4
Semele 175, 182
Septentriones 352
Serbo-Croat epic 19, 35, 104, 428, 429, 456,
462, 468, 474, 477, 480–1
metre 54–5
serpent, cosmic 347–9
Servius Tullius 268, 456
S ́es
̇
a 347–8
seventy-seven ills 334
Sha ̄h-na ̄ma 14
shamanism 22, 149, 156 n. 123, 345, 346
‘shield against shield’ etc. 114–16
ships 40
of song 40–1
of Sun 203, 207–9, 210
typical epithets 85
shoe, single 419
‘shower’ of iron etc. 83, 480
siege 454
Siegfried 445–6
Sigurd 426, 461, 467–8, 493, 496, 499
Sileni 293
Silvanae 288
Silvanus 137, 281
similes 95–9, 494–5
Simonides 31
Sinfiotli 390
Sirius 139–40, 257, 352–3
Sisyphus’ labour 202
Sius(summi) 168, 171, 194
skaldic verse 18, 81
Skrýmir 301
skull cups 492–3
Sky-gods 166–73; see also *Dyeus
Slavonic traditions 19
metres 54–5
‘slayer of –– ’ 82, 405–6
sleep less than a bird 99
Sleipnir 205, 300
smith, divine 154–7, 259
snake in bosom 98
snipe 240, 248
Snorri Sturluson 18, 177
Sohrab and Rustum motif 440–2
Solon 175
Soma 157–60, 227, 346
soul leaves dying hero 490
speeches in narrative 68, 476–9
spells 32, 106, 326–39
stylistic features 327–9
Sphinx’s riddle 367–8
sphragis 324
spinning of destinies 380–5
springs 274–9
stabbing spells 333
Starcatherus 300
stars 351–3
countless as 95–6
Steropes 136, 248
Stesichorus 209, 211, 230
storm-gods, see thunder-gods
Strauss, Richard 432
Stribogu ̆ 170, 265
strongholds 452–4
sun, Sun-god 194–217
all-seeing 198–9
as eye 171–2, 198, 199
as lamp/torch 195
audible phenomena 206, 212
bathes at night 212
cattle 224, 371–2
chariot 205–7, 210–11
cosmic weaving 372–4
cultic observance 212–16
dark side 209–10, 374
daughter 189, 227–34
disc 203–4, 213
expressions involving 85–7, 97
gender 194–5
‘great’, ‘swift’ 198
horses 203–7
morning/evening salutation 215–16
oaths by sun 199–201
rays seen as spread fingers 220
rests at night 211
ship 203, 207–9, 210
untiring 211
wheel 201–3, 206, 207
superlatives
predicated of gods 129–30
questions about 361–2
superlative + gen. pl. of same word 112
Su ̄ rya (Sun) 196, 198, 199, 201–2, 205, 207,
211, 372–3
Su ̄rya ̄ (daughter of Sun) 227, 234, 236
suttee 499–501
Svarog 197
svayam
̇
vara 433–6
Sve ̨tovit 147–8, 152
Svyatogor 302
swastika 203, 205
‘sweet’ utterance 89–90
swift as a blink 96–7
as thought 96
swimmer reaching land simile 98–9
swings 213–14, 226, 235522 Index