Indo-European heritance in Baltic plant names, legends and folklore

Investigations into Baltic legends and folklore will be used as a source of information of inherited mythological concepts, especially myths associated with lakes and bogs which touches upon the role of music and musicians in the society, the location of the Otherworld and beliefs regarding the hereafter.

Other research projects will be studies in Baltic place names in a historical and mythological context and an Etymological Dictionary of Baltic Plant Names.

Scholar in charge

Postdoc, dr. Bernd Gliwa

News

First and second place to Indo-Europeanists from University of Copenhagen
- 31-07-2018
- At the annual prize competition for the best Master’s thesis by the Society for Indo-European Studies, two graduates from Indo-European Studies at the University of Copenhagen have won the first and second prizes respectively. … »
Launch of "The Homeland Timeline Map"
- 29-06-2018
- Mikkel Nørtoft has launched his interactive map of prehistoric migrations. … »
New research shows how Indo-European languages spread across Asia
- 09-05-2018
- A new study has discovered that horses were first domesticated by descendants of hunter-gatherer groups in Kazakhstan who left little direct trace in the ancestry of modern populations. … »

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Indo-European heritance in Baltic plant names, legends and folklore

Scholar in charge

News

First and second place to Indo-Europeanists from University of Copenhagen

Launch of "The Homeland Timeline Map"

New research shows how Indo-European languages spread across Asia