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Three Digoron notes*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Anna Butler
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In 1961 an extensive collection of Ossetic folklore was published in two volumes in Ordzhonikidze under the title ИронАдæмьι Сфæлдьιстад. The collection includes both Iron and Digoron material and a large section of volume one is devoted to texts from the Ossetic Nart Epos. Among the Digoron Nart texts there is a large number of words and phrases which are difficult to interpret. Three such cases are discussed below.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 122 , Issue 1 , January 1990 , pp. 13 - 16
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1990

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1 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., vol. 8 (Edinburgh, 1879), p. 526Google Scholar.

3 The Siberian weasel, Mustela sibirica, is a species separate from the stoat. See Grzimek, , Animal Life, vol. 12, p. 45Google Scholar.

4 Miller, pp. 195, 833; Abaev, , Dictionary, vol. 1, p. 183Google Scholar and vol. 2, p. 143.

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6 Abaev, Months, p. 1.

7 Abaev, Months, p. 2.

8 Munkácsi, p. 210, note 2.

9 Miller, p. 38; Abaev, , Dictionary, vol. 3, p. 75Google Scholar.

10 Russian-Ossetic Dictionary p. 202.

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12 Grzimek, , Animal Life, vol. 13, p. 87Google Scholar.

13 The “month of the Wild Boar” might have been so called because the animal was hunted during the winter. According to the Shooting Times and Country Magazine, Feb. 9–15, 1984, p. 29, today the boar is hunted in North Ossetia from September to December.

14 Abaev, , Dictionary, vol. 1, pp. 239–40Google Scholar; Abaev, Months, p. 2; Munkácsi, p. 210.

15 “enough fodder” translates Ossetic *сайæнваги фагæ, literally “enough of a fodder sufficiency”. I emend the form сайæйнаги, which occurs in the I.A.S. 1 passage, to сайæнваги in the light of сайæнваг “fodder sufficiency” from сайæн “fodder” and фаг, Dig. фагæ) “sufficient, enough”. This word occurs in the Iron version of this story on p. 230 of Нартьι Κаддҗьιтæ (Dzœwdzhyqœw, 1946).

16 L. and Milne, M., Living Plants of the World (London, 1967), p. 304Google Scholar.

17 Flora Europaea, ed. Tutin, T. G. et al. (Cambridge, 1964), vol. 5, p. 204 and index p. 107Google Scholar.

18 Miller, p. 1099; Abaev, , Dictionary, vol. 3, p. 210Google Scholar translates this word as “four-rowed barley”.

19 Miller, p. 676; Abaev, , Dictionary, vol. 1, p. 587Google Scholar.

20 Miller, p. 458; Abaev, , Dictionary, vol. 2, p. 321Google Scholar.

21 Miller, p. 1304.