Indo-European Poetry and Myth

Varuna 137, 146–7, 171–2
Vasilissa 372 n. 89
Vasus 143–4
Va ̄ta 264
vates 27–8
Va ̄ ́yav Índras ́ ca construction 306–7
Va ̄yu, Vayu 264
Ve ̄ja ma ̄te, Ve ̇jopatis 265
Veleda 28
Velesu ̆ 146–7
Ve ̃linas 137, 146–7
Vellaunos 146–7
Venetic 16
Venus 135
Vərəθraγna 246
Vesta 144–5, 267
Vesun(n)a, Visuna 144
Víðarr, Vidasus 281
víly 291
Vis ́varu ̄ pa 260, 262
Vivasvat 192–3, 273
Volcanus 137, 155, 268
Volund 156, 296, 493
Vourukasˇa 346
Vr
̇
tra 135, 246, 255–7, 259, 370
Vu cˇedol 202

Wagon, Wain (constellation) 352
Walis 146–7
warfare 447–54, 479–87
war-bands 448–51
‘war fetter’ 489
war-gods 147–8
see also battle narrative
warriors
altercations 476–7
as wall, fortress, etc. 454–5
as pillar 45
as wolves 450–1
bite dust 490
‘chosen men’ 454
dead body admired 490
embrace earth 490
fight naked 449–50
‘killer’ 454
paired in battle 472
rescued by god 484
soul departs 490
stunned 489
suspected of being god 484
vomit blood 489–90
see also hero
water, Waters 135, 274–9
nymphs 284–9, 291–2

Watkins, Calvert 4, 46, 256, 490

Wayland’s Smithy 156, 296 n. 58

weapons 460–4

blaze with fire 463

cult of 464

individual names 462

missile returns to hand 254, 463

thirsty for blood 462

unique 104, 461–2

weaving imagery 36–8, 41

cosmic 372–4

destiny 385–6

wedri 285

Weird Sisters 383

Weland 156, 296, 462

Welsh literature 17, 62 n. 97

metre 54

Wessobrunn prayer 18, 341, 355–6

Westphal, Rudolf 45–6

wheel, wheeled vehicles 11, 40

as model of year 370–1

burning wheel rolled down hill 214

solar wheel 201–3, 206

‘whether you are in –– ’ 322–3

White Island 349

‘who are you, of whom are you?’ 431, 476

William Tell 443

wind gods 263–5

‘wind-swift’ 466

wisdom 359–72

Wodan, Woden 28 n. 8, 137, 173, 377

wolf 84, 149

warrior as wolf 450–1

women

in heroic saga 432–40

lament dead 498–9

suttee 499–501

see also marriage; queen

‘wood’= spear or ship 460 n. 37

‘word and deed’ 79

word order 76–7, 308, 405

world-encircling stream/ocean 260–1, 347–9

worms 335

writing destinies 386

Wyrd 383, 386

Yama 357, 376–7, 380, 393–4

dogs 392

house, gates 388, 389, 391

Yamnaya culture 11

Ya v e r zˇaharsunk‘ 286

year riddles 370–2

Yggdrasil 346, 347

Y Gododdin 17

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