Searching for Origins: Indo-European Words and Nordic Representations

• Main Author: ZIRONI, ALESSANDRO
• Other Authors: SPINOZZI, P. - ZIRONI, A., Zironi A.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2010
• Subjects: FILOLOGIA GERMANICA; INDO-EUROPEO; ANTICO NORDICO; LETTERATURE COMPARATE; EDDA; Jules; Verne; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11585/89323

Indo-European words which indicate 'origins' evoke stasis of kinesis, call attention to the starting point or to the movement they engender, focus on the beginning or on the outcome. The double interpretation of the concept of origin can be retraced in the Nordic myth of the creation of co...