The Old Woman / Grand-Mother ethnolinguistic motif associated with the Mother-Earth figure in Western Europe? Database and analysis of place-names and lexical items

• Main Author: Fossard, Lee
• Other Authors: Centre de recherche bretonne et celtique (CRBC), Université de Brest (UBO)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES), Université de Bretagne occidentale - Brest, Daniel Le Bris, Xaverio Ballester
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2021
• Subjects: Place-names; Folklore; The name “old woman”; Database; Western Europe; Mother-Earth; (interpretation of) landscapes; Megaliths; Ancient divinity; Ethnolinguistics; Toponymes; Littérature orale; Motif Vieille Femme; Base de données; Europe de l’Ouest; Terre-Mère; (interprétation des) paysages; Mégalithisme; Divinité primordiale; Ethnolinguistique; [SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology; Lent; Norway; Iceland; Islande
• Online Access: https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03721541; https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03721541/document; https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03721541/file/These-2021-STT-Sociolinguistique-FOSSARD_Lee-Vol_1.pdf

This work aims at studying the Old Woman (OW) linguistic motif which is highly recurrent, on a European scale, in toponymy, folklore, and semantics. This pattern can be found in the languages and dialects of eight countries constituting our study area: Norway, Denmark, Iceland, the United Kingdom, I...