This volume contains thirteen articles, ten of which were presented at the Fifth International Colloquium of 'Societas Celto-Slavica' held at Příbram, 26-29 July 2010. The contributions include papers on a range of subjects relating to Celtic and Slavic early and modern linguistic data, their cultural and narrative traditions. In addition to papers on lexical and grammatical parallels between Celtic and Slavic languages, other subjects covered are mythological aspects of Irish narrative tradition, modern Welsh literature and language, and aspects of Breton grammar. The second part of the volume includes invited papers on Russian and Scottish Gaelic paremiology, early Irish pseudo-history and archaeological evidence relating to Celtic presence on the territory of the present day Ukraine.
Author(s): Maxim Fomin, Václav Blažek, Piotr Stalmaszczyk (eds.)
Series: Studia Celto-Slavica, 6
Publisher: Łódź University Press
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 212
City: Łódź
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Maxim Fomin, Václav Blažek & Piotr Stalmaszczyk
Part 1: Proceedings
Presidential Address: Bohemia, Ireland and Pan-Celticism / Séamus Mac Mathúna 11
On Specific Zoological Isoglosses between Celtic and (Balto-)Slavic / Václav Blažek 17
A Celtic Gloss in the Hesychian Lexicon / Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak 31
'Daughter' ~ 'Maiden' ~ 'Maidservant': Dynamics of Semantic Shift from Continental Celtic to Insular Celtic Vocabulary / Tatyana A. Mikhailova 39
Cleft as a Marker of a Thetic Sentence: Evidence from Irish and Russian / Maria Shkapa 51
The Breton Verb 'endevout' and the French 'avoir': The Influence of Descriptive Grammars on Modern Breton Verbal System / Anna Muradova 65
The Figurative Dimension of Welsh Nicknaming in the Light of the Great Chain of Being / Katarzyna Jędrzejewska-Pyszczak 75
A Welsh Award-Winning Novel on Russia: 'Petrograd' by Wiliam Owen Roberts / Elena Parina 91
Supernatural Beings and 'Song and Dance': Celtic and Slavic Exemplars / Dean Miller 101
'Fír Flathemon' in the Russian Primary Chronicle? The Legend of the Summoning of the Varangians and the Prefatory Matter to 'Audacht Morainn' / Dmitry Nikolayev 113
Part 2: Invited Papers
Fintan mac Bóchra: Irish Synthetic History Revisited / Grigory Bondarenko 129
Migration through Gaelic and Russian Proverbs / Maria Koroleva 149
Celtic Military Equipment from the Territory of Ukraine: Towards a New Warrior Identity in the Pre-Roman Eastern Europe / Gennadiy Kazakevich 177
