title: *WŌÐANAZ/ÓÐINN outside the Germanic pantheon
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Kleiner, Yuri
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-07-15T17:34:32Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-07-15T17:34:32Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2016-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu21.2016.103
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/6788
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Odin’s connections outside the Germanic realm (*Wōðanaz: Óðinn/Wōdan/
  Wôden/Wuotan) are limited to Lat. vātēs ‘prophet’ (Irish fāith ‘poet’), probably akin to *wa- ‘blowing’, conveying the idea of ‘wind’, ‘inspiration’ and ‘fury’. The interpretation
  of Odin as a ‘spirit-’ or ‘wind god’, and the ‘leader of the Wild Hunt’ presupposes his
  Germanic autochthony. Tacit’s identification of Odin with Mercury may reflect the later
  re-interpretation of the two gods’ affinity and functions, particularly that of leading
  the dead to the Other World, also the function of Ἅɩδης. The latter shares with Odin
  a number of characteristics, including ‘invisibility’ (resp. ‘lack of vision’, cf. Odin’s
  half-blindness), reflected in Ἅɩδης < *α-Fɩδης ‘unseen’, with prefix desemantization as
  a result of reanalysis after *F-loss.
  Comparison of *Ϝɩδη- and Wōð- is possible, admitting that the root-final consonant
  in the latter belongs to the past participle of *vid-, with *-d- devoiced before the
  stressed suffix *-t(o)-: *t > *þ > *ð (Verner’s Law). The vacillation of the root vocalism
  may reflect different ablaut grades of the ‘see’ (Lat. vidēre, Goth. witan) and ‘know’
  (Gr. Ϝοἶδα, Goth. wait), and contamination, similar to Russian svidetel’ (‘one who saw’)
  ~ svedetel’ (‘one who knows’), resulting in the desemantization and loss of the negative
  prefix in *n̥-Wōðanaz.
  This does not exclude contamination with the /n/-infixed derivatives of vāt-,
  ventus/*winðaz ‘wind’, also connected with ‘blowing’ and ‘knowledge’, cf. Lat. inspiratio and Icelandic spyrja ‘to learn’, postulated as the Benennungsmotiv of Odin*Wōðanaz.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 14; Issue 1
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Odin (Óðinn, *Wōðanaz)
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: vātēs
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Interpretatio Romana
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Mercury
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Hades
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: functions
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: traits
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: etymology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: folk etymology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Verner’s Law
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ‘to see’ ~ ‘to know’
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: *WŌÐANAZ/ÓÐINN outside the Germanic pantheon
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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