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Nart saga

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Etymology
Characters
Study and significance
Connections to other mythology
Differences between Nart legends
See also
References
Sources Further reading
External links

The Nart sagas ({{lang-ady|Нартхымэ акъыбарыхэ}}; Nartxıme aqıbarıxe; Abkhaz: Нарҭаа ражәабжьқәа; Nartaa raƶuabƶkua; {{lang-krc|Нарт таурухла}}; Nart tawruxla; {{lang-os|Нарты кадджытæ}}; Nartı kadjıtæ; Narty kaddžytæ; {{lang-ce|Нарт Аьрштхой}}; Nart ärştxoý; Nart ärştxoj) are a series of tales originating from the North Caucasus. They form the basic mythology of the tribes in the area, including Abazin, Abkhaz, Circassian, Ossetian, Karachay-Balkar, and Chechen-Ingush folklore.

Etymology

The term nart comes from the Ossetian Nartæ, which is plurale tantum of nar.^[1] The origin of the root nar is of Iranian origin, from Proto-Iranian nar for 'hero, man', descended from Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr.{{sfn|Colarusso|2002|pp= xxiv, 552}} In Chechen, the word nart means 'giant'.

Characters

Some of the characters who feature prominently in the sagas are:

Sosruko (Ubykh, Abkhaz and Adyghe : sawsərəqʷa (Саусырыкъо); Ossetian : Soslan (Сослан)) - a hero who sometimes also appears as a trickster
Batraz (Ossetian: Батырадз) was the leader and greatest warrior of the Narts
Satanaya (Ubykh: satanaja; Adyghe: setenej (Сэтэнай); Ossetian: Satana (Сатана)) - the mother of the Narts, a fertility figure and matriarch
Tlepsh (Adyghe and Abaza: {{IPA-cau|ɬapʃʷ|}}; Ossetian: K^wyrdalægon (Куырдалæгон)) - a blacksmith deity
Syrdon (Ossetian: Syrdon (Сырдон)) - a trickster figure compared by Georges Dumezil to the Norse Loki. (see ru:Сырдон)
Pkharmat (Chechen: Pẋarmat (Пхьармат)) - in the Nakh peoples' Vainakh epos, a blacksmith figure who steals fire from the gods for the mortals.{{sfn|Tsaroieva|2005|p= 199}}
Dzerassae ({{lang-os|Дзерассæ}}), daughter of the sea-god Donbettyr, and mother of many Nart heroes

Study and significance

The first written account of the material is due to the Kabardian author Shora Begmurzin Nogma, who wrote in Russian 1835–1843, published posthumously in 1861. A German translation by Adolf Berge was published in 1866 {{harv|Berge|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 Scythians, Sarmatians, and Alans (the Alans being the ancestors of the Ossetians).{{sfn|Colarusso|2002}} However, they also contain abundant local North Caucasian accretions of great antiquity, which sometimes reflect an even more archaic past.{{sfn|Colarusso|2002|pp= xxiv, 552}}

Based especially on the Ossetian versions, the sagas have long been valued as a window towards the world of the Iranian-speaking cultures of antiquity. For example, the philologist Georges Dumézil used the Ossetian division of the Narts into three clans to support his Trifunctional Hypothesis that the Proto-Indo-Europeans were similarly divided into three castes—warriors, priests, and commoners.

The Northwest Caucasian (Circassian, Abkhaz-Abasin and Ubykh) 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".{{sfn|Colarusso|2002|pp= xxiv, 552}}{{sfn|Colarusso|2002}}

Connections to other mythology

Some motifs in the Nart sagas are shared by Greek mythology. The story of Prometheus chained to Mount Kazbek or to Mount Elbrus 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 Caucasian peoples to the ancient Greeks, also shown in the myth of the Golden Fleece, in which Colchis is generally accepted to have been part of modern-day Georgia.

In the book From Scythia to Camelot, authors C. Scott Littleton and Linda A. Malcor speculate that many aspects of the Arthurian legends are derived from the Nart sagas. The proposed vector of transmission is the Alans, some of whom migrated into northern France 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.{{sfn|Colarusso|2002}} See Historical basis for King Arthur – Sarmatian hypothesis ( in subsection Lucius Artorius Castus ) for more details.

Differences between Nart legends

There are some differences between the various versions of the Nart legends. For example, the Ossetian versions depict the Nartic tribe as composed of three distinct clans who sometimes rival one another: the brave Æxsærtægkatæ (to whom the most prominent Narts belong), the rich Borætæ, and the wise Alægatæ; The Circassian versions do not depict such a division. The Abkhaz versions are unique in describing the Narts as a single nuclear family composed of Satanaya's one hundred sons.^[2] Yet all of these versions describe the Narts as a single coherent group of (mostly) ‘good’ heroes.

Some Nakh (Chechen-Ingush) legends include a group called the Nart-Orxustxoi, which includes the most prominent Narts known from the other versions (e.g. Seska-Solsa corresponding to Sosruko/Soslan, Khamtsha-Patarish corresponding to Batraz/Batradz etc.). In contrast to the Ossetian and Abkhaz versions, the Nakh legends depict the Narts as warlike bandits, who fight against local good heroes such as Koloi-Kant and Qinda-Shoa.{{sfn|Tsaroieva|2005|p=215}} (with Qinda-Shoa corresponding to Sawway/Shawey).

References

1. ^{{citation| editor-first = V.I.| editor-last = Abaev |editorlink=Vasily Abaev|at = p.158-9 "Nartae, Nart" | url = http://allingvo.ru/LANGUAGE/etimolog_slovar.htm |script-title=ru:ИСТОРИКО-ЭТИМОЛОГИЧЕСКИЙ СЛОВАРЬ ОСЕТИНСКОГО ЯЗЫКА | trans-title = Historical-Etymological Dictionary of Ossetian language | volume = II (L-R) | year =1973 | language = russian }}
2. ^{{citation| title = Mify narodov mira | trans-title = Myths of the World | year = 1980 | volume =2 (K-Ya)| at = Narty |editor-first = S.A.| editor-last = Tokarev | type = encyclopedia | language = Russian }}

Sources

{{citation|title = Die Sagen und Lieder des Tscherkessen-Volks| trans-title = The legends and songs of the Circassian peoples | year = 1866| url = https://archive.org/details/diesagenundlied00nogmgoog| first = Schora Bekmursin | last = Nogmov| editor-first = Adolf | editor-last = Bergé | editor-link = Adolf Berge | language = german |ref = {{harvid|Berge|1866}} }}
{{citation| title = Nart Sagas from the Caucasus: Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs| editor-first= John| editor-last = Colarusso| year = 2002 | isbn =9781400865284 }}
- Also published as {{citation| title = Nart Sagas: Ancient Myths and Legends of the Circassians and Abkhazians | isbn = 978-0-691-16914-9 | year = 2002}}, with an introduction by Adrienne Mayor
{{citation| last = Tsaroïeva | first = Mariel | title = Anciennes Croyances des Ingouches et des Tchetchenes | language= French | trans-title = Old beliefs of the Ingush and Chechens | year =2005 | isbn = 2-7068-1792-5 | ref={{harvid|Tsaroieva|2005}} }}

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