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| The '''Nart sagas''' ({{lang-ady|Нартхымэ акъыбарыхэ}}; {{lang-krc|Нарт таурухла}}; {{lang-os|Нарты кадджытæ}}; ''Narty kaddžytæ''; {{lang-ce|Нарт Аьрштхой}}) are a series of tales originating from the ]. They form the basic ] of the tribes in the area, including ], ], ], ], ]-] and ]-] folklore. | |||
| == Etymology == | |||
| The term ''nart'' comes from the ] name of Narts, ''Nartæ'', which is '']'' of "''nar"''.<ref name="Abaev">] "Nart". ''''.</ref> | |||
| The origin of the ] ''nar'' is probably of ] origin, from ] ''nar'' for "hero", "man", descended from ] '']''.<ref name=colarusso>John Colarusso. . ''Univ. of Toronto Quarterly''. Princeton University Press. pp. xxiv, 552.</ref> However, ] declined this etymology relying on two arguments. The first argument is that the descendant of Indo-European root ''*h₂nḗr'' in Ossetic is ''næl'' ("male"), and the second point is that the central hero of the saga is the woman ]. Instead, Abaev suggested a ] origin of ''nar'', from Mongolian word ''nara'' for "]".<ref name="Abaev"/> | |||
| ==Characters== | |||
| Some of the characters who feature prominently in the sagas are: | |||
| * ] (], ] and ] '''{{unicode|sawsərəqʷa}}''' (Саусырыкъо), ] '''soslan''' (Сослан)), a hero who sometimes also appears as a ]; | |||
| * ] (Ubykh '''{{unicode|satanaja|}}''', ] '''{{unicode|setenej|}}''' (Сэтэнай), ] '''satana''' (Сатана)), the mother of the Narts, a ] figure and matriarch; | |||
| * ] (] and ] '''{{IPA-cau|ɬapʃʷ|}}''', Ossetian '''K<sup>w</sup>yrdaləgon''' (Куырдалæгон)), a blacksmith deity;<ref>, Youtube.</ref> | |||
| * ] (] '''{{unicode|Syrdon}}''' (Сырдон)) a trickster figure compared by ] to the ] ]. | |||
| * ] ({{lang-ce|'''Pẋarmat''' Пхьармат}}), in ] epos, a blacksmith figure who steals fire from the gods for the mortals .<ref>Tsaroïeva, Mariel. ''Anciennes Croyances des Ingouches et des Tchetchenes''. p. 199. ISBN 2-7068-1792-5.</ref> | |||
| ==Study and significance== | |||
| The first written account of the material is due to the ]ian author Shora Begmurzin Nogma (who wrote in Russian 1835-1843, published posthumously in 1861, German translation by ] in 1866). The stories exist in the form of prose tales as well as epic songs. | |||
| It is generally known that all the Nart corpora have an ancient Iranian core, inherited from the ], ], and ] (the Alans being the ancestors of the ]).<ref name=colarusso/><ref name=colarusso2/> However, they also contain abundant local North Caucasian accretions of great antiquity, which sometimes reflect an even more archaic past.<ref name=colarusso/> | |||
| Based especially on the Ossetian versions, the sagas have long been valued as a window towards the world of the ]-speaking cultures of antiquity. For example, the philologist ] used the Ossetian division of the Narts into three ]s to support his '']'' that the ] were similarly divided into three castes—warriors, priests, and commoners. Additionally John Colarusso appends that Caucasian myths have common parallels within Indo-European, ] and ] traditions.<ref name=colarusso2>John Colarusso, '''' Introduction.</ref> | |||
| The ] (], ]-] and ]) versions are also highly valuable, because they contain more archaic accretions and preserve "all the odd details constituting the detritus of earlier traditions and beliefs", as opposed to the Ossetian ones, which have been "reworked to form a smooth narrative".<ref name=colarusso/><ref name=colarusso2/> | |||
| ==Connections to other mythology== | |||
| Some motifs in the Nart sagas are shared by Greek mythology. The story of ] chained to ] or to ] in particular is similar to an element in the Nart sagas. These shared motifs are seen by some as indicative of an earlier proximity of the ] peoples to the ancient Greeks, also shown in the myth of the ], in which ] is generally accepted to have been part of modern-day ]. | |||
| In the book ''From Scythia to Camelot'', authors ] and ] speculate that many aspects of the ] are derived from the Nart sagas. The proposed vector of transmission is the ], some of whom migrated into northern ] at around the time the Arthurian legends were forming. As expected, these parallels are most evident in the Ossetian versions, according to researcher John Colarusso.<ref name=colarusso2/> See '']'' for more details. | |||
| ==Differences between Nart legends== | |||
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| ==Sources== | |||
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| == External links == | |||
| '''Circassian Nart sagas''': | |||
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| '''Abkhaz Nart sagas''' | |||
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| * Contains a brief outline of Karachay-Balkar Nartic legends (in English). | |||
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| '''Chechen-Ingush Nart sagas''': | |||
| * Contains discussion of Chechen and Ingush Nartic legends (in English). | |||
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Nart is a name and i like to troll :P