Where is everybody? / Nart Epics

It seems like the list has dried up - where is everybody these days?

I am interested in whether or not anyone on the list can comment on
Proto-Indo European themes in the Nart epics (allegedly the remains of
Scythian myth) - specifically the sword in the lake motif (Batradz commiting
his sword to the waters three times - an obvious parallel to the Continental
Arthurian tales). It has been noted that this motif appears in Japanese myth
- with the theory that it was transmitted to the Japanese by the Scuthians.

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