Monumental scholarly work by Calvert Watkins (1995). Reconstructs aspects of Proto-Indo-European poetic language and formula, with sustained focus on the dragon-slaying formula as it appears across Vedic, Greek, Hittite, Celtic, Germanic, and other Indo-European traditions.
Established the comparative reconstruction of PIE poetic formulas as a rigorous philological discipline; the dragon-slaying formula became the paradigm case for understanding deep continuities in Indo-European heroic narrative.
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