Night-mare: on the origin of a trope in Celtic and Germanic (a response to Stephen Pax Leonard)
This paper has been conceived as a response to Stephen Pax Leonard’s article “Hipponyms in Indo-European”. The idea of contrasting names for "horse" in the "language of the gods" and the "language of men" certainly seems interesting.
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