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From kenning to insult: Old Norse, Old Irish and Russian carrions and their Indo-European background

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A study of a phrase found in Russian folk epic and folktales, which is a kenning for "carrion" probably borrowed from Scandinavian phraseology in the Middle Ages. The Indo-European background provides partial parallels in Greek and in Indo-Iranian, but never as a kenning strictly speaking. The kenning is at home in Germanic languages, and outside Germanic is found in Russian and Old Irish, probably in both languages borrowed from Germanic.
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halshs-03930769, version 1 (09-01-2023)

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Claire Le Feuvre. From kenning to insult: Old Norse, Old Irish and Russian carrions and their Indo-European background. Indo-European Religion and Poetics. A comparative approach, Brill, p. 182-200, 2023, 978-90-04-53827-6. ⟨10.1163/9789004538283_011⟩. ⟨halshs-03930769⟩
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