Tales of the Narts - Ancient Myths and Legends of the Ossetians

Zusatztext "For English-readers! [ Tales of the Narts ] is indispensable for its subject" ---Ephraim Nissan! Fabula Informationen zum Autor John Colarusso is professor of anthropology and modern languages and linguistics at McMaster University and one of the world's most distinguished scholars of comparative linguistics. He is the author of The Northwest Caucasian Languages: A Phonological Survey and A Grammar of the Kabardian Language . He is also the editor of Nart Sagas: Ancient Myths and Legends from the Circassians and Abkhazians (Princeton). Tamirlan Salbiev is professor of English at North Ossetian State University and an expert of Old English. Klappentext The Nart sagas are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. Tales of the Narts presents a wide selection of fascinating tales preserved as a living tradition among the peoples of Ossetia in southern Russia, a region where ethnic identities have been maintained for thousands of years in the face of major cultural upheavals. A Zusammenfassung The Nart sagas are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. Tales of the Narts presents a wide selection of fascinating tales preserved as a living tradition among the peoples of Ossetia in southern Russia, a region where ethnic identities have been maintained for thousands of years in the face of major cultural upheavals. A

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• Authors: John Salbiev Colarusso
• Assisted by: John Colarusso (Editor), Colarusso John (Editor), Tamirlan Salbiev (Editor), Salbiev Tamirlan (Editor), Walter May (Translation), May Walter (Translation)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.06.2016
• EAN: 9780691170404
• ISBN: 978-0-691-17040-4
• No. of pages: 512
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Guides > Spirituality > Ancient knowledge, ancient cultures; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Russia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, Folklore, myths & legends, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)