Lexicon of Baltic Mythology

The present volume is an alphabetically arranged lexicon of mythological terms of Baltic mythology. The terms are analyzed in their historical and ethnological context and in perspective of their etymology. They were preserved in numerous chronicles, usually written in non-Baltic languages, namely Latin, German, Old Russian, and Old Polish. Their second important source is hidden in Lithuanian and especially Latvian folk songs called 'dainas'. Portions of both primary texts and folklore are included within the individual entries. The recently formulated interpretations of Lithuanian and Latvian mythologists are also taken in account, to confront them with older opinions and with the results of etymological analysis. The proposed etymological explanations of the analyzed terms should serve to differentiate a common Indo-European heritage from the purely Baltic forms, and finally from external mutual interferences with Slavic, Iranian, Germanic and Fenno-Volgaic traditions.

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• Authors: Marta Ev Betáková, Marta Eva Betáková, Marta Eva Běťáková, Václav Blazek, Václav Blažek
• Assisted by: Hana Betáková (Translation), Marta Eva Betáková (Translation), Hana Běťáková (Translation), Marta Eva Běťáková (Translation), Václav Blazek (Translation), Václav Blažek (Translation)
• Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2021
• EAN: 9783825348663
• ISBN: 978-3-8253-4866-3
• No. of pages: 290
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 23 mm x 220 mm
• Weight: 437 g
• Illustrations: 1 Abbildung
• Series: Empirie und Theorie der Sprachwissenschaft
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Mittelalter, Mythologie, Sprachgeschichte, Latein, Ethnologie, Etymologie, Antike, Baltikum, Lettisch, Litauisch, Lexikon, Literaturwissenschaft: Antike und Mittelalter, Mediävistik, Lettland, Litauen, Historische Sprachwissenschaft, Folklore, Mythen und Legenden, Frühe Neuzeit, Volkslieder, Chroniken, Slavische Sprachen, Indogermanistik, Baltische Sprachen und andere Indoeuropäische Sprachen, Altrussisch, Perkunas, Dainas, Slawische Religion und Mythologie, Lauma, baltische Mythologie, Velinas, Altpolnisch, Laima