Kurdalægon

THE CORPUS ALREADY NAMED HIM AND DID NOT HOLD HIM. ossetian_batraz carries the domain 'tempered in the (Kurdalægon) smithy' and ossetian_satana's cycle turns on the same forge — a smith cited inside another record's domain label while having no record of his own. That is this programme's recurring finding, arriving here for the twentieth time.

Domains

• smithcraft
• tempering of heroes
• shoeing the horse of the dead
• friendship with the narts

Relations

• temperer of: Batraz
• equated with: Safa
• cross tradition counterpart of: Divine Smith of the Narts

Sources

• Reference treatment of Kurdalægon: the heavenly deity of blacksmiths in Ossetian mythology and a close friend of the Narts, whose epithet is 'the heavenly one'; he shoes the dead man's horse and so helps him on his journey to the other side; he forged the body of the steel hero Batraz by quenching the white-hot infant in the sea after he was delivered from his father's back; he tempered Soslan's body in wolf's milk, which did not cover the knees; he is the Ossetian counterpart of the Circassian smith Tlepsh.