Talk:Nart saga

message: "Modern peoples in the area are mainly Muslim, meaning that the Nart sagas are not remembered as well as they used to be." What's that supposed to mean? I presume it's saying that the native people have been replaced with muslims (or have turned to Islam), but it almost sounds like the author's implying that Muslims have bad memories. -- Darac Marjal 11:05, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I wrote this article, and I think you're reading too much into what I wrote. What I meant was simply that most native peoples of the area are now Muslim, so they're not going to believe in Sosruko and Satanaya, and those old myths will eventually be forgotten. This is already the case among the Ubykh people, few of whom can remember more than fragments of their Nart stories. It wouldn't have mattered if they had taken up Christianity, Islam, or Shinto. Why would I imply that Muslims have bad memories? That would be a stupid and biased fiction that doesn't deserve to be on Wikipedia. thefamouseccles 01:53, 02 Mar 2005 (UTC)

text: I'm glad to hear that. Unfortunately, among the Ubykh people and most other Northwest Caucasian people the Nart sagas are not known very well at all any more; I'm glad that they survive at least in the Ossetic regions. Thefamouseccles 12:34, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
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message: "(Implicit in this argument is the assumption that this aspect of the Nart sagas was derived from the Ossetians, as the other peoples among whom the sagas are shared are non-Indo-European.)"
Why is that? The most widely-accepted Proto Indo-European homeland is in the Ukranian and Southern Russian Steppes, just a few miles away from the ancient Adyghe lands, for example. These similarities could derive from early contacts and cultural diffusion, and clearly have nothing to do with a shared linguistic history. Therefore, if this sentence is a mere assumption and not a direct quote from Dumézil, it shouldn't be there, as it seems a rather faulty assumption.KelilanK 00:20, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: A simple check shows that it is not a mere assumption, and that that was precisely what Dumézil's position was. I've added some details with a source (which is not very enthusiastic about the IE origin in any case). --91.148.159.4 03:32, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

text: And BTW, that PIE homeland reasoning was very far-fetched in any case.--91.148.159.4 03:33, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doesn't make much sense 

message: Does anyone know what the land of the Narts is called in these stories? Is it named at all? sephia karta | di mi 11:46, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name of the land of the Narts 

message: This article uses the terms saga, epic, legend, etc as though they were mutually interchangeable. They are not. Each word has a specific connotation in folklore and to use them otherwise is incorrect.--King ravana (talk) 18:40, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Terminology 

message: According to these dictionaries it is spelled like this: 1, 2
Beside this: "Mongolian nara 'sun' left its trace in the Ossetic toponym Nary qaew 'village of the sun'". (source: 3) --66.187.67.109 (talk) 00:33, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  The modern spelling of nara is not relevant in this article.--Bouron (talk) 09:20, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  right spelling of "nara/narta/nar" 

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thread_title:  External links modified (February 2018) 

message: I changed the following sentence from this:
"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.[footnote] (with Qinda-Shoa corresponding to Sawway/Shawey)."
to this:
"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 (with Qinda-Shoa corresponding to Sawway/Shawey).[6]"
Was this the right thing to do? Please let me know. (Edit: I ask this because I'm not sure if the parenthetical is cited in the footnote.)--Thylacine24 (talk) 14:31, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Switched parenthetical around