caa a22 4500 378854496 CHVBK 20180305123331.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20030430xx s 000 0 ger 10.1515/ZCPH.2003.202 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/ZCPH.2003.202 Zimmer Stefan Sprachwissenschaftliches Institut, Universität Bonn, D-53012 Bonn A uo penn bit pont: aspects of leadership in Celtic and Indo-European [Elektronische Daten] [Stefan Zimmer] The second branch of the Mabinogi, the story of Branwen Uerch Lyr, is well-known among students and connoisseurs of Celtic literatures. Not the least attractive feature of it is that it still hides so many unsolved riddles. It is attempted here to bring one of these nearer to an acceptable solution by looking at it from a wider perspective. The alleged saying in the title of this contribution has never been found attested elsewhere in Celtic literature, except by citation, of course. If it was a fixed expression, or even a proverb when the story became fixed as we have it, it must have had a long history already. The following investigation is an attempt to detect this background by means of historical linguistics and a comparison of IE literary formulas, adducing also archaeological findings. © Max Niemeyer Verlag GmbH, Tübingen 2003 Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 53/1(2003-04-30), 202-229 0084-5302 53:1<202 2003 53 ZCPH https://doi.org/10.1515/ZCPH.2003.202 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/ZCPH.2003.202 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Zimmer Stefan Sprachwissenschaftliches Institut, Universität Bonn, D-53012 Bonn NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 53/1(2003-04-30), 202-229 0084-5302 53:1<202 2003 53 ZCPH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter