American linguist at Harvard, one of the foremost Indo-Europeanists of the 20th century. His monumental How to Kill a Dragon reconstructed Proto-Indo-European poetic formulas — particularly the dragon-slaying formula — from comparative analysis of ancient texts.
Reconstructed the Proto-Indo-European dragon-slaying formula from comparative analysis of Vedic, Greek, Hittite, Celtic, and Germanic sources; advanced the field of Indo-European poetics.
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