This lecture compares Indian and Homeric epics to look at the Indo-European customs surrounding “abduction” of women and concludes there are formalised and legal forms of wife abduction and there are illegal ones.
It is clear that the story of Frey and Gerd conforms exactly with legal abduction in which a messenger (Skirnr) is sent in advance. Whereas the Jotuns taking Iðunn was completely illegal ie: against IE custom
This lecture compares Indian and Homeric epics to look at the Indo-European customs surrounding “abduction” of women and concludes there are formalised and legal forms of wife abduction and there are illegal ones.
It is clear that the story of Frey and Gerd conforms exactly with legal abduction in which a messenger (Skirnr) is sent in advance. Whereas the Jotuns taking Iðunn was completely illegal ie: against IE custom
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