Od Homera do Wulfstana - wyścigi jako motyw honorowania zmarłych u ludów indoeuropejskich (i czy tylko zmarłych?)

• Authors: Szczepański Seweryn
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In this article I try to explain the Indo-European origin of the idea to organize the Games of funeral recorded among the Prussians at the end of the 9’th century. As the primary source was adopted the transmission of the Anglo-Saxon merchant – Wulfstan, a sailor, who came about 890 r. to the port of Truso. He described the funeral wealthy representative of the local community. The characteristic features was the staying of the deceased for a long time at home and organizing there a feast, an important part of the funeral were also racing the rest of the deceased good. The organizer of the race were the heirs (or one of the heirs) of the deceased. Such activities were related not only with the sharing of the wealth, but also to building social position by the offsprings (descendants) of the deceased. Similar customs are widely common in Indo-European peoples. Analogous behavior described in the Iliad and Homer’s Odyssey, we meet them at Thracian, Celtic, Etruscan and Italic peoples. Among the Balts – especially the Prussians habit of combining multi-day family get-togethers with elements of the Games preserved at least to the mid-sixteenth century

Keywords

PL

podróż Wulfstana do Truso; zwyczaje funeralne Prusów; agony i igrzyska pogrzebowe; uczty pogrzebowe; pogrzeby wojowników

• Publisher: Instytut Północny im. Wojciecha Kętrzyńskiego w Olsztynie
• Journal: Komunikaty Mazursko-Warmińskie
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 3(285)
• Pages: 313-326

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Szczepański Seweryn