On the Mythology of Indo-European Heroic Hair

The Journal of Indo-European Studies. — Spring/Summer 1998. — Volume 26, Number 1 & 2 — pp. 41-60. The conflation of epic-imaginal and some historical and protohistorical data presented here tells us, at the very least, that the head-hair of the I-Е warrior-hero can carry a considerable symbolic potency and a deep and variable set of significances.