H2020Индивидуална стипендия2020–2022

SunSHINE · The Sun-chariot’s Journey Towards the Nordic Sky: on the (Pre-)History of Ideas on Sky, Sun, and Sunlight in Northern Europe

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2020-07-01 → 2022-06-30
Финансиране от ЕС: 207 312 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Предмета на изследването са представите за небето и слънцето в древните германски и индоевропейски езици, анализирани чрез поетични изрази и метафори. Систематичният езиков анализ помага да се разберат религиозните и космологичните вярвания на историческите и праисторическите общности.

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The Sun-chariot’s Journey Towards the Nordic Sky: on the (Pre-)History of Ideas on Sky, Sun, and Sunlight in Northern Europe

During the MSCA fellowship at the Roots of Europe research center of Copenhagen University’s Department of Nordic Studies and Lingusitics, the researcher Dr. Riccardo Ginevra, under the supervision of Prof. Birgit Olsen, has worked towards three main objectives: (1) “Sky, sun, and sunlight in Old Norse, Germanic, and Indo-European”, in which features of poetic and figurative language – such as so-called “formulaic expressions” and “phraseological collocations” – attested in the texts of a number of ancient traditions have been collected and analysed according to their semantic and pragmatic contexts of occurrence; the shared elements of these contexts have in turn been investigated as well, in order to extract and identify the so-called “oral-traditional themes” or “thematic structures” that they reflect – i.e. the thematic units, or ready-made building blocks, according to which the texts belonging to ancient oral traditions were structured. Such features of ancient languages are an open window on the religious conceptualizations and cosmological beliefs according to which the speakers of these languages lived: studying them by means of a systematic linguistic analysis gives us privileged insight into the minds of both historical and prehistoric human communities, a process that also allows us to understand our own contemporary cultures better. (2) “Archaeolinguistics and Comparative Indo-European Poetics”: the researcher has undergone training activities in order to absorb the basic tenets of Archaeolinguistics – the very successful interdisciplinary approach to Indo-European studies practiced at the Roots of Europe research center, combining Linguistics and Archaeology in a single field – and to combine it in turn with the discipline of Comparative Indo-European Poetics by engaging in his own original research. (3) “Dissemination and communication”: the researcher has attempted to raise awareness within the scientific community of his research themes, and of their importance for the analysis of ancient cultures and the reconstruction of their modes of thought. Image: the Trundholm Sun Chariot. Source: https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-bronze-age/the-sun-chariot/

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The objectives of my project are: (1) to further develop the field of Comparative Indo-European Poetics (CIEP) and to strengthen the interdisciplinary collaboration between Historical Linguistics and Archaeology;(2) to apply the approach of CIEP to Old Norse (ON) and Germanic (Gmc.) texts by analysing poetic phraseology and mythological conceptions concerning the sky, the sun, and sunlight which find correspondences in other Indo-European (IE) traditions and may reflect Proto-Indo-European (PIE) heritage; (3) to connect the results of this analysis with prehistoric archaeological artefacts by means of an interdisciplinary approach to these issues.Spoken more than 5000 years ago, PIE is the reconstructed ancestor of all IE languages, among which are Hittite, Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit, as well as ON and other ancient Gmc. languages (such as Old English and Old Saxon). By studying these languages in a comparative perspective, historical linguists have reconstructed not only an impressive amount of the words of PIE, but also of its traditional formulas and poetic phrases. These are the subject of study of CIEP, whose approach has only sporadically been applied to ON and Gmc. texts. CIEP gives us precious insights into the mythological beliefs of the speakers of PIE: inter alia, we can reconstruct numerous PIE poetic images and cosmological conceptions concerning the day-lit sky, the sun, the sunlight, and the deities which were associated with them. Some of these conceptions are, on the one hand, attested in ON and Gmc. texts and, on the other hand, have parallels in Bronze Age archaeological artefacts belonging to Northern and Central European prehistoric cultures, whose formation has recently been traced back by scholars of Archaeology, Genomics, and Archaeolinguistics (an interdisciplinary field combining Historical Linguistics and Archaeology) to contacts between pre-existing populations of Neolithic farmers and migrating groups of PIE-speaking pastoralists.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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