Transforming Traditions: Studies in Archaeology, Comparative Linguistics and Narrative. Proceedings of the Fifth International Colloquium of "Societas Celto-Slavica" Held at Příbram, 26-29 July 2010

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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. Introduction 5 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