Revisits the three approaches to the interpretation of narratives (namely, mimetic, mythological and textualist) advocated for by T. Ó Cathasaigh, Pagan survivals: the evidence of early Irish narrative, in Ireland and Europe: the early church, ed. by P. Ní Chatháin and M. Richter (Stuttgart 1984) to conclude in favour of social cognition.
Review article of: Представления о смерти и локализация иного мира у древних кельтов и германцев (Predstavleniya o smerti i lokalizatsiya inogo mira u drevnikh Keltov i Germantsev) [Transl.: Ideas of death and the location of the Otherworld in early Celtic and Germanic traditions], ed. by V. P. Kalygin, T. A. Mikhailova, and T. V. Toporova (Moscow: LRC, 2002).