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DOI: 10.46698/g3597-4701-6076-q
ON THE ALANIAN HERITAGE IN THE WEST
Dzattiaty, Ruslan G.
Izvestia SOIGSI. 2020. IIS 36 (75).
Abstract:
As a result of the processes that accompanied the Great Migration of Nations, the Alans, having
fallen into Western Europe, were assimilated, leaving several hundred place names associated with
them in France, Northern Italy, Spain, and England. The traces of the Alans» stay in the West were
first generalized by V. A. Kuznetsov and V. K. Pudovin. The appearance of the work of the American
scientist B. S. Bachrach «Alans in the West» removed skepticism regarding the role of the Alans in
the history of the peoples of Western Europe. The role of the Alans in the historical events of Western
Europe of the early and mature Middle Ages was clearly stated in the works of V. B. Kovalevskaya,
Franco Cardini, Howard Reed, Scott Littleton, Linda Malkor. Particularly remarkable is the
voluminous work of Agusti Alemany «Alans in ancient and medieval written sources.» The Alans
borrowed the device of the horse army, and with it, probably, the equipment of the horseman, an
important detail of which was the military belt. The buckle with the shield of such a belt served as a
status marker for the Alans: depending on what material it was made of (gold, silver, and bronze) it
indicated a place in the social hierarchy. As a result of modifications, the three-petal ornament could
very well become the basis or prototype of a special sign-symbol — the so-called «royal lily». The
transformation pattern of a three-petal pattern into a lily can be illustrated with buckle patterns. It
must be assumed that the Alans left their mark not only in toponymy, organization of the cavalry
army, but also in ornamentation, folklore, anthroponymy and other cultural manifestations, which
must be carefully studied
Keywords: Alans, burial grounds, chivalry, toponymy, heraldry
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