--- Sergejus Tarasovas <
S.Tarasovas@...>
wrote:
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> [[GK: What does it mean? The Norse sagas make her
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> into "Swanhild" (approxim.) and this becomes
> "Lybed'"
> (=swan)in Slavic adaptations]]
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> Primary Chronicle's <LybedI> is of course of the
> same root *lyb- as
> *u-lyba 'a smile', u-*lybiti se, 'to smile' etc. A
> connection to
> *o'lbUndI 'swan' is folk-etymological.
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> Sergei
*****GK: It would seem that "Lybed'", who appears in
the Primary Chronicle in two contexts only, was added
to the Kyiv version of the Ulch Foundation Legend by
Abbot Sylvester, as a correction of Nestor's text (I
use conventional referents). Sylvester is the same
editor who gave us the "folk-etymology": Polani="those
who live in the fields". What is interesting here is
not so much the actual etymology of "Lybed'", but the
fact that Sylvester linked the "Rosomon" story to the
Kyiv Foundation Legend. Originally it merely mentioned
"three brothers". And now there was also "their sister
Lybed'". Nothing more is said about her. The
"brothers" were connected to specific "hills" in Old
Kyiv. There was a river "Lybed'" in the area, but
Sylvester does not mention it in either of the two
"sister Lybed'" contexts.******
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