"Proceedings of an international interdisciplinary symposium held at Matenadaran (Yerevan, Armenia) between 7-9 September 2009." Includes bibliographical references. Includes addenda and corrigenda.
Contents:
Introduction / Séamus Mac Mathúna, Maxim Fomin, Alvard Jivanyan -- Keynote address. Creative witness in Ireland and Armenia : parallels in historiography, the eremetical tradition, myth and legend / Séamus Mac Mathúna -- Part 1. Indo-European dimensions -- Armenian and Celtic : towards a new classification of early Indo-European dialects / Karl Horst Schmidt -- Celtic, Armenian and Eastern Indo-European languages : comments on a recent hypothesis / Alexander Falileyev and Petr Kocharov -- Armenia in Ireland : Indo-European cognates, medieval legends and pseudo-historical accounts / Maxim Fomin -- Part 2. Origin myths and legends -- Armenia and Ireland : myths of prehistory / Armen Petrosyan -- Armenia : the cradle of the Gaels and the Amazons? / Sergey Ivanov -- Lore of origins in medieval Ireland / John Carey -- Part 3. Christianity in Armenia and in Ireland -- Adoption of Christianity in Armenia : legend and reality / Hayk Hakobyan -- Similarities between the early Christian Armenian monuments and Irish high crosses in the light of new discoveries / Hamlet Petrosyan -- The Byzantine and Armenian cultural interface : a sketch / Dean Miller -- Re-introduction of lithic discourse to Britain and Ireland : Armenian-Byzantine influence / Natalia Abelian -- Part 4. Narrative, historical poetics and folklore -- On some ritual mythological features of the Armenian epic Daredevils of Sassoun / Sargis Harutyunyan -- Metamorphosis as a major fairy trope in Irish and Armenian tales / Alvard Jivanyan.
Series:
Journal of Indo-European studies monograph series ; 61
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