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title = "Indo-European patrons vs. clients, and the role of poets as social brokers: {\textquoteleft}Leaders{\textquoteright} vs. {\textquoteleft}friends{\textquoteright}, and intelligent speakers in the mythologies of Scandinavia, India, and Rome",
abstract = "Structural and linguistic parallels between the Norse myth of Kvasir, the Indic myths of Agastya Māny{\'a}-, and the Roman legend of Agrippa Menēnius allow for the comparative reconstruction of an inherited IE myth, according to which INTELLIGENT (*men-) SPEAKERS, i.e., POETS, had the role of social brokers (i.e., mediators) between PATRONS (called *h2ens-u- {\textquoteleft}leaders{\textquoteright}) and their CLIENTS (called {\textquoteleft}friends/allies{\textquoteright}).",
keywords = "Indo-European Studies, Historical Linguistics, Comparative Reconstruction, Archaeology, Anthropology, Sociology, History of Religions, Indo-European Studies, Historical Linguistics, Comparative Reconstruction, Archaeology, Anthropology, Sociology, History of Religions",
author = "Riccardo Ginevra",
year = "2024",
doi = "10.55069/tiu87004",
language = "English",
isbn = "9788763547284",
series = "COPENHAGEN STUDIES IN INDO-EUROPEAN",
pages = "177--209",
editor = "R Ginevra and BA Olsen",
booktitle = "Power, Gender, and Mobility. Aspects of Indo-European Society",
}