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