Kurdalægon
Introduction '''Kurdalægon''' (), also spelled and known as '''Kuịrdalägon''', '''Kurd-Alägon''', '''Aläugon''', '''Kurd-Alä-Uärgon''', is the heavenly deity of blacksmiths in Ossetian mythology. His epithet is "the heavenly one"; he shoes the dead man's horse, thus helping him on his journey to the other side. He is a close friend of the Narts.It is important to note that despite being associated with other blacksmith deities in different Indo-European mythologies (like Vulcan) he does not have the status of a god. Ossetian mythology is considered to be monotheistic, with only Xwytsau being considered God, and all the others (called ''zædtæ'' and ''dæwdžytæ'') being considered deities of a lower class.
Etymology Ossetian  is a contraction of , where ''Kurd'' and ''Alæ'' are epithets, meaning "blacksmith" and "Alan/Aryan", respectively, and ''Wærgon'' is the original name of Kurdalægon. The whole phrase means "Alan/Aryan Blacksmith Wærgon". ''Kurd'' originates from ''*kur-ta-'' or ''*kur-tar-'', which is agent noun of ''*kur-'' "to heat", "to incandesce". Ossetian ''alæ'' originates from ''arya-'',  and originally meant "Aryan", and later "Alan".The original name ''Wærgon'' is derived from Old Ossetic ''*wærg'' "wolf" (see Warg). The linguist Vasily Abaev compares it to the name of the Roman god Vulcan.
See also * Tlepsh* Vulcan* Kaveh the Blacksmith
References
Sources * Abaev, V.I. '' Historical-Etymological Dictionary of Ossetian language''*