Fridrik Thordarson

 

List of publications

 

A. Scholarly works:

 

1) Some notes on Anatolian Ossetic.

Acta Orientalia, Copenhagen, 33/1971, pp. 145-167.

Transl. into Russian: Neskol’ko slov o jazyke anatolijskix osetin.  Izvestija Jugo-osetinskogo naučno-issledovatel’skogo instituta Akademii nauk Gruzinskoj SSR, Tskhinvali, vyp. XVII/1971, pp  95-114.

2) Die Ferse des Achilleus - ein skythisches Motiv?

Symbolae Osloenses, Oslo, 47/1972, pp.109-124.

3) JOrw`, blevpw, qewrw`. Some semantic remarks.

Symbolae Osloenses, Oslo, 46/1972, pp. 108-130.

4). Ossetic and Caucasian. Stray notes.

Norsk tidsskrift for sprogvidenskap, Oslo, 27/1973, pp. 85-92.

5) Ossetic preverbs.

Monumentum Georg Morgenstierne, vol. II, Leiden 1983, pp. 251-261.

6) An Ossetic miscellany. Lexical marginalia.

Kalyāṇamitrārāgaṇam. Essays in honour of Nils Simonsson. Oslo 1986,  pp. 277-286. 

7) Analecta Osica. A lexical miscellany.

Riepmočála. Essays in honour of Knut Bergsland. Oslo 1984, pp. 182-194.

8) Ossetisch uæxsk/usqæ "Schulter". Lexikalische Marginalien.

Festschrift für Helmut Humbach. Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft, Beiheft, N.F. 13. München 1986, pp. 499-511.

9) Die Rolle des Bilinguismus in der Entwicklung des Ossetischen.

Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. Suppl. 6, Stuttgart 1985, pp. 221-224.

An abbreviated version of a paper read at the German "Orientalistentag", Tübingen 1983.

10) Sibilanten und Affrikaten im Ossetischen.

Georgica, Jena, XII/1990, pp. 14-17.

A paper read at the Second Caucasian Colloquium, Vienna 1984.

11) The Scythian funeral customs. Some notes on Herodotus IV, 71-75.

A Green leaf. Papers in honour of Professor Jes P. Asmussen. Leiden 1988, pp. 539 - 547.

12) Old Ossetic accentuation.

Papers in honour of Ehsan Yarshater. Leiden 1990, pp. 256 - 266.

13) Gallia Alanica. (The Alans in Gaul.)

Papers in honour of Prof. V. I. Abaev, 1990. Studia Iranica et Alanica. Festschrift for Prof. Vasilij Ivanovič Abaev on the Occasion of his 95th Birthday. Rome 1998, 483-498. (Serie orientale Roma. Vol. LXXXII.)

14) Zur ossetisch-tscherkessischen Wörterliste bei Nicolaes Witsen:  Noord en Oost-Tartarye..., Amsterdam 1705, pp. 526-528.  In cooperation with  Prof. W. Boeder, Oldenburg. Written 1991. In the press.

15) The Ossetic Bäkh fäldisyn funeral rites.

The Proceedings of the XXXII International  Congress for Asian and North African Studies, Hamburg 1986. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. Suppl. 9, Stutgart 1992, pp. 669 -670.

A summary of a paper read at the Congress.

16) Kartwelische Studien in Skandinavien.

The Proceedings of the Second  International Symposium of Kartvelian Studies, Tbilisi 1993, pp. 72-79.

17) Notes on the religious vocabulary of the ancient Ossetes.

A paper read at the First Congress of Ossetic Studies, Vladikavkaz 1991. To appear in the Proceedings of the Congress.

18) "Horse consecration": Ossetic funeral rites.

A paper read at the 6th Caucasian Colloquium, Maikop 1992. In: The Nart Epic and Caucasology. Societas Caucasologica Europaea, VI Colloquium, Maykop 1994, pp. 345-349.

19)Ossetic.

Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum, hg. von R. Schmitt, Wiesbaden 1989, pp 456 - 479.

20) Articles in Encyclopaedia Iranica:

               a) Kocoyty Arsen , vol. II,  pp. 547 - 548.

               b) Asii, Asiani  , vol. II, pp. 764 - 765.

               c) Asb  (Horse among the Scythians), vol. II, pp. 730 - 731.

               d) Bäx fäldisyn (Ossetic funeral rites), vol.III, pp. 876 - 877.

               e) Bedžyzaty Čermen , vol. IV, pp. 78.

               f) Bryt´iaty Elbyzdyqo , vol. IV, pp. 455.

               g) Bayaty Gappo , vol. III, pp. 886.

               h) Carus (Roman emperor), vol. V, p. 22.

               i) Caucasus - Language contact,  vol. V, pp. 92 - 95.

               j) Colchis , vol. VI, pp. 41 - 42.

               k) Daghestan - Linguistic influences, vol. VI, pp. 575 - 576.

               l) Konow, Sten, (2003, 2 pp.), to appear.  

               m) Morgenstierne, Georg, (2003, 8 pp.).), to appear.

               n) Ossetic (2003, 29 pp.)

               o) Fidiuæg , vol. IX, p. 610.

               p) Gädiaty Comaq , vol. X, pp. 245-6.

               q) Mamsyraty Däbe, 1 p., (to appear).

               r) Digor, vol.VII, pp. 402-404.

21) Grísk orð og íslensk . (Greek words in mediaeval and modern Icelandic).

Skírnir, vol. 168, Reykjavik 1994, pp. 161-180.

22) Ossetic grammatical studies., I.

In preparation (manuscript 183 + 146 + 9 pp.).

23) Herodotus and the Iranians.. I-III.             

Symbolae Osloenses, 71/1996, pp. 42-58.

24) Herodotus and the Iranians. IV-V.

 Symbolae Osloenses, 72/1997, pp. 91-101.

25) Remarks on the religious vocabulary of the Alans.

Annual of Medieval Studies at CEU (Central European University). Vol. 6. Budapest 2000, pp. 213-224.

26) Linguistic contacts between the Ossetes and the Kartvelians.

Studies in Caucasian linguistics. Selected papers of the 8th Caucasian Colloquium, Leiden 1999, pp. 279-285.    

27. Ossetic.

Iranian Languages, ed. G.L.Windfuhr. In the press. 2003. 39 pp.

28) Oath and Truth in Ossetic.

Written for V.I.Abaev Memorial Volume 2000,  Journal of Indo-European Studies. Not yet appeared. ll pp.

29) Bilingual contacts between the Ossetes and their Nakh-speaking neighbours.

A paper read at the 10th Caucasian colloquium, München August 2000.

30) Ossetic.

Encyclopaedia Iranica. 30 pp. To appear.

 

 

B. Reviews:

 

31) N. Andriotis: Lexikon der Archaismen in neugriechischen Dialekten, Wien.

Norsk tidsskrift for sprogvidenskap, Oslo, 29/1975, pp. 153-154.

32) Fr. Bader: Suffixes grecs en -m-. Recherches comparatives sur    l´hétéroclisie nominale, Paris 1974.

Norsk tidsskrift for sprogvidenskap, Oslo, 29/1975, pp. 251-252.

33) Manfred Lorenz: Lehrbuch des Paschto (Afghanisch), Leipzig 1979.

Acta Orientalia, Copenh., 43/1983, pp. 122-123.

34) Pashto Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 1; vol. II, no. 2, Kabul 1356/1977-8.

Acta Orientalia, Copenh., 42/1981, pp.140-141.

35) R. E. Emmerick & P. O. Skjærvö: Studies in the vocabulary of  Khotanese, II, Wien 1987.

Acta Orientalia, Copenh., 50/1989, pp. 185-187.

36) Almuth Degener: Khotanische Suffixe, Hamburg 1989.

Acta Orientalia, Copenh., 52/1991, pp. 197-199.

37) Ladislav Zgusta: The Old Ossetic inscription from the River Zelenčuk, Wien 1987.

Kratylos, Wiesbaden, 33/1988, pp. 91- 95.

38) A. V. Williams (ed.): The Pahlavi Rivāyat accompanying the  Dādestān ī Dēnīg. Part I- II, Copenhagen 1990.

Acta Orientalia, Copenh., 54/1, 1993, pp. 187 - 188.

39) Vera Basch Moreen (ed.): Iranian Jewry during the Afghan invasion. The Kitāb-i Sar Guzasht-i Kāshān of Bābāī b. Farhād. Text edition and commentary by V. B. M., Stuttgart 1990.

Acta Orientalia, Copenh., 54/1, 1993, pp. 189-190.

40) Nosratollah Rastegar: Zur Problematik einiger handschriftlicher Quellen des Neupersischen, Wien 1989.

Acta Orientalia, Copenh., 54/1, 1993, pp. 190-191.

41) F. Vahman, G. S. Asatrian: West Iranian dialect materials from the collection of D. L. Lorimer. Vol. II. Short stories of the Baxtiārīs,  Copenh. 1991.

Acta Orientalia, Copenh., 54/1, 1993, pp. 191 - 192.

42) R. Schmitt (ed.): Corpus inscriptionum Iranicarum. P.I, vol. 1,1: The Bisutun inscriptions of Darius the Great. Old Persian text. London 1991.

Acta Orientalia, Copenh, 53, pp. 177-179.

43) (Werner Sundermann) Iran und Turfan. Beiträge Berliner Wissenschaftler, Werner Sundermann zum 60. Geburtstag gewidmet. Hg. von Christiane Reck und Peter Zieme. Wiesbaden 1995. (Iranica. Hg. von Maria Macuch. B. 2.)

Acta Orientalia, Copenh., 58, 1997, pp. 231-232.

44) Agustí Alemany: Sources on the Alans. (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 8, vol. V.) Leiden etc. 2000.

Journal of the American Oriental Society, 122.1. 2002. pp. 180-181.

 

 

C. Biographies. Bibliographies:

 

45) Hans Vogt.

Norsk biografisk leksikon,b. 18,  Oslo 1974, pp. 134 - 140.

46) Georg Morgenstierne.

Monumentum Georg Morgenstierne, vol. I, Leiden 1981, pp. 1 - 7.

47) Georg Morgenstierne.

Basar, 1980, pp. 61 - 64. (Swedish translation in: Afghanistan-nytt. Sth. 1985, pp. 29 - 30).

48)  Hans Vogt.

Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift 1, Tromsö 1987, pp. 7 - 11.

49) Carl Hj. Borgstrøm, Alf Sommerfelt, Alf Torp, Hans Vogt:

Lexicon grammaticorum, Tübingen 1996, pp. 122-123, 873-874, 927-928, 979-980.

Norsk tidsskrift for sprogvidenskap, Oslo, 27/1973, pp. 93 - 97.

50) Hans Vogt 1903-1966.

Norsk Biografisk Leksikon. Oslo 2005 (to appear).

51) Georg Morgenstierne.

Encyclopaedia Iranica. 8 pp. To appear.

52). Sten Konow.

Encyclopaedia Iranica. 2 pp. To appear.

              

 

D. Popular writings:

 

53) Hjalað við Medeu  (Icel. "Talks with Medea", Old Georgian literature.)

In: Tímarit Máls og menningar, Reykjavík 1971, pp. 6-22.

54) Sófókles: Antígóna. Formáli , Reykjavík 1975, pp. 5-17. (Preface of an Icelandic translation of Sophocles’ Antigone.).

55) Ossetar.  (Icel. "The Ossetes".)

In: Réttur, Reykjavík 1982, pp. 204-222

56) Væringjaspjall  (Icel. "The Varangians".)

In: Grikkland ár og síð. Bók helguð tveggja alda afmæli Sveinbjarnar Egilssonar (Memorial volume, dedicated to Sveinbjørn Egilsson, 1791-1991), Reykjavík 1991, pp. 313-321.

57) Grískar Þjóðvísur  (Icel. "Greek folk poetry".)

In: Grikkland ár og síð. Bók helguð tveggja alda afmæli Sveinbjarnar Egilssonar (Memorial volume, dedicated to Sveinbjørn Egilsson, 1791-1991), Reykjavík 1991,  pp. 335-343.

58) Folkeeposet Digenis Akritas. (Norw: "The Greek epos Digenis Akritas".)

In: Gresk åndsliv. Fra Homer til Elytis. Oslo 1983, pp. 148-158.

59) Kurdisk litteratur - noen glimt. (Norw. "Kurdish literature".)

In: Kurdistan-Nytt. Spesialnummer., Oslo 1985, pp. 5-8.

60) Gresk sprog i Sovjetunionen. ( Norw. "Greek in the Soviet Union.".)

In: Klassisk forum,1989,1, Oslo,  pp. 38-46.

61) Romania Alanica. Alanske stammer i Vest-Europa i folkevandringstiden. (Norw.."Alanic tribes in Western Europe during the era of the Great Migrations".)

In: Klassisk forum, 1992,2, Oslo, pp. 32-39.

62) Etniske konflikter i Kaukasus.. (Norw." Ethnic conflicts in the Caucasus".)

In:  Etniske konflikter i Sentral-Asia og Kaukasus. Norsk utenrikspolitisk institutt: Forskningsrapport nr. 172, Oslo 1993, pp. 81-94.

63) Iranske studier [i Norge]. (Norw. "Iranian studies in Norway".)

In: Midtøsten Forum, vol. 1, Oslo 1986, pp. 51-54.

64) Ossetic literature.

In:  Encyclopedia of the world literature in the 20th century. Rev. ed. Vol. 3, New.York,1983, pp. 44-45.

65) Det byzantinske Akritas-epos.

In: Romansk forum, b. 19/1999,2. Oslo 1999, pp. 99-107.

(Originally a paper read at the Norwegian Institute of Athens, May 1999.)

66) Religion and nationalism in the Northern Caucasus.

In: The Middle East viewed from the North. Publ. by  Nordic Society for       Middle Eastern Studies, Bergen 1992, pp. 49-52.

Armenian translation: Kronakan ew ēt'nik iradrut'yunə hyusisayinKovkasun. Iran-name, 1, Erevan 1994, pp. 6-7.

67) Studiet av de kaukasiske språk. ("Caucasian linguistic studies.").

In: Klassisk forum 1997,2. Oslo.

68) Den danske sprogforsker Rasmus Rasks rejser.

In: Klassisk forum, Oslo 2002, pp. 29-35.

69) Í fótspor Gröndals ("In the footsteps of Groendal",  the Icelandic poet Benedikt Groendal’s monastic life in the 1850’ies.)

In: Skjöldur, Reykjavik 43/2004, pp. 20-

 

E. Lectures:

 

a. A visiting lecture

70) Bæch fældisyn - et ossetisk begravelsesritual.  (Dan.: "Horse consecration. An Ossetic funeral rite".)

A paper read at the University of Copenhagen in1984 and the University of Reykjavik in 1991.

  

b. Popular lectures:

71) Moderne gresk folkediktning.  (Norw.: "Modern Greek folk poetry".)

University of Oslo 1882.

72) Byzans og Norden i middelalderen.  (Norw.: "Byzance and Scandinavia in the Middle Ages".).

University of Oslo 1983.

73) Kurderne. Minoriteter i Iran.  (Norw. "The Kurds. Minorities in Iran".)

University of Oslo 1979.

74) Den danske sprogforsker Rasmus Rasks rejser. (Dan.: The travels of      the Danish linguist Rasmus Rask.)

Christopher Hansteen and his time. Scientific travels. Symposium, University of Oslo, okt.  2001.

           

 

F. Icelandic translations:

 

75) Grískar Þjóðsøgur og æfint‎ýri. ("Greek folk tales"). Reykjavik 1962. 130 pp.

76) Longus: Sagan af Dafnis og Klói. ("Daphnis and Chloe".) Reykjavik 1966. 168 pp.

77) Þúkýdídes  (Thucydides) : Meleyjarþáttur. ("The Melian dialogue".)

Tímarit Máls og menningar, 1965, Reykjavik, pp. 348-355.

78) Laskaris Kananos: Grísk ferðasaga fra 15. øld. ("A Greeks´ travels in Scandinavia in the 15th century".)

Tímarit Máls og menningar, Reykjavik 1968, pp. 183-185.

79) Miheíl Dsjavahísjvílí: Steinn Satans ("Eshmakis kva"). From Georgian.

Jón á Bægisá. Tímarit þýðenda (“Translators’ Journal”), 6/2001, Reykjavík 2002, pp. 15-26.

 

 

G. Editorial work:

 

80)  Norsk tidsskrift for sprogvidenskap (NTS), 1963-67 (managing editor).

81)  Språkvitenskap. En elementær innføring.  Red. av E. Hovdhaugen. Oslo 1976; rev. utg. 1978  (Norw. "An elementary introduction to general linguistics".)  (Member of the editorial board; author of the chapter on Language typology).

82) Studia Caucasologica, I.: Proceedings of the Third Caucasian Colloquium, Oslo 1986. Oslo 1988.

83) Studia Caucasologica, II: Hans Vogt: Linguistique caucasienne et arménienne (together with  E. Hovdhaugen). Oslo 1988.

 

 

H. Varia:

 

84) Review of S. Sørensen: Rigveda (Icelandic translation of Rigveda hymns.).

Tímarit Máls og menningar 1964, Reykjavík, pp. 91-95.

85) Úr Grikklandseyjum. (Icel. "Sketches from the Greek islands".)

Tímarit Máls og menningar. Reykjavík 1965, pp. 221-226.       

86) Á Halýsbøkkum. (Icel. "Sketches from Anatolia".)

Tímarit Máls og menningar, Reykjavík 1967, pp. 127-134.

87) Hans Vogt 70 år. (Norw. "H.V. septuagenarius.").

Dagbladet, Oslo, 1st June 1973.

88) Saga úr bæjarlífinu. (Icel. "An event in the town". A sketch..)

Tímarit Máls og menningar, Reykjavík 1979, pp. 315-317.

89) Frá Albert. (Icel. "About Albert [Sigurðsson]". A sketch from     Reykjavík and Oslo 1948-52).

Skjøldur, Reykjavik, 11/1996., pp. 4-8.

90) Georg Morgenstierne. Obituary.

Dagbladet, Oslo, 10th March 1978.

91) Hans Vogt. Obituary.

Arbeiderbladet, Oslo, October 1986.

92) Magnús Kjartansson. (An Icelandic politician),  Obituary.

Þjóðviljinn, Reykjavík, August 1981.                        

93) Sigurður Hafstað sjøtugur. ("S.H. (an Icelandic diplomat) septuagenarius").

Þjóðviljinn, Reykjavík, 28th July 1986.

94) Bericht über das III.  kaukasologische Kolloquium, Oslo 1986.

 Georgica, Jena, 10/1987.

95) Ossetar og Þjóðernismál í Georgíu. (Icel. "The Ossetes and the Georgian nationality question.")

Þjóðviljinn, Reykjavik, 8th Jan. 1992.

96) Vitjað fornra støðva. (Icel. "A Nostalgic visit [in Reykjavík"].)

Þjóðviljinn 19th July 1991.

97) Den kurdiske tragedien. (Norw. "The Kurdish tragedy")

Dag og Tid, Oslo, 25th April 1991.

98) Úr nafla heimsins. (Icel "From the Navel of the World". A sketch from Iceland and Delphi, Greece.)

Skjøldur, Reykjavik, nr, 13/1996, pp. 10-11.

99) Aðalsmenn og bolsvíkingar.  (Icel. "Noblemen and Bolsheviks". A sketch from Iceland.)

Skjøldur, Reykjavík, nr. 23/1999, pp. 20-21.                              

100) Knut Kristiansen 1928-1999. (A Norwegian Indologist.) Obituary.

Dagsavisen, Oslo, 2nd August 1999.

101) Stjórnviska og golfranska. (Icel. "Politics and gibberish".)

Skjøldur, Reykjavík, nr. 30/2000, pp. 16-17. 

102) Odinn og Kaukasus. (À propos Th. Heyerdahl’s Æsir hypothesis.)

Private publication, Oslo 2001. 4 pp.

103) Afghanistan var en hvit flekk på kartet. Interview om Georg Morgenstierne i

Afghanistan-nytt, nr. 3/2001-2, Oslo 2002.

104) Christian Lassen, Georg Morgenstierne, Hans Vogt:  Biographies.

In: Norsk biografisk leksikon. Oslo. In the press.

105) Í fótspor Grøndals ("Icel. "In the footsteps of Groendal")

Skjøldur, Reykjavik, nr. 42/2004.

106) Unpublished: Genitivus singularis av de indo-européiske io-stammer i latin. Thesis, Oslo 1961. 93 pp.

107) In preparation: Ossetic Grammatical Studies, ca. 150 pp.

108) Numerous articles about Iranian and Caucasian matters in

Kunnskapsforlaget’s Konversasjonsleksikon, Oslo, 1970-80’ies.

 

 

May 2005.