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A proposito di viaggi insoliti, mostri mangia-luna ed altre curiosità ossete

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Abstract

The article examines some specific episodes of the Ossetic folklore with special reference to the travels in the kingdom of the dead, the eat-moon monsters and the modernity of some behaviours of Satàna, heroine of the Narts.


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Submitted: March 7, 2017 | Accepted: May 18, 2017 | Published Feb. 19, 2018 | Language: it

Keywords Ossetic literature • Travels • Ossetia • Nart epos • Ossetic folklore

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