Title: How to kill a dragon
First published: 1995
Description: In How to Kill a Dragon Calvert Watkins follows the continuum of poetic formulae in Indo-European languages, from Old Hittite to medieval Irish. He uses the comparative method to reconstruct traditional poetic formulae of considerable complexity that stretch as far back as the original common language. Thus, Watkins reveals the antiquity and tenacity of the Indo-European poetic tradition.
Subjects: Poetics, Indo-European philology, Comparative linguistics
LC classification: P569 .W38 1995