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Kladenets ((ロシア語:меч-кладенец)); also called ''samosek'' or ''samosyok'' () the "self-swinging sword,"〔 is a fabulous magic sword in some Old Russian fairy tales. In English translations of Russian byliny and folklore, it may be rendered variously as "sword of steel,"〔 etc. In the "Tale about the City of Babylon" the sword is called "Asp The Serpent" (Аспид-змей). In the "Tale about ''bogatyr'' Yeruslan Lazarevich" it is mentioned among the fire shield and fire spear. ==Etymology== The word "kladenets" can putatively be linked to the Slavic word ''klad'' () "treasure, hoard," although "a number of philologists doubt" that this word-stem figures in the derivation of "() Russian epithet of this sword."〔 George Vernadsky renders kladenets as "the hidden sword," which concurs with the common motif in the stories in which "this sword is usually represented as hidden under a rock, or under a sacred tree" to be discovered by the hero, such as the bogatyr.〔 Although Vernadsky fails to elaborate, an alternative etymology connects the term kladenets to ''klast’'' () "to lay or put," and his rendering lies in this camp. One rational explanation derives the word from ''uklad''() () "steel", hence ''kladenets'' is defined as meaning "made of steel" in the ''Dictionary of Archaic and Obscure Words'' published by the Russian Academy of Sciences.〔 Another explanation, credited to Alexander Veselovsky theorizes that kladenets may have originated as a corrupted pronunciation of "kgl'adencyja" () or "kgl'arencyja" (), the good sword of . The Old Russian tale of Bova was adapted from the medieval Italian romance of ''Buovo d'Antona'', in which the original sword name is . This etymology has been endorsed by Max Vasmer's dictionary, under the entry that defines kladenets as a "magic sword in Russian tales".〔 Kladenets means "well" (for water) in the related Slavic language Bulgarian (Bulgarian: кладенец), potentially evocative of torrents of blood. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sword Kladenets」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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