[3] His epithet is "the heavenly one"; he shoes the dead man's horse, thus helping him on his journey to the other side.
Despite being associated with other blacksmith deities in different Indo-European mythologies (like Vulcan) he does not have the status of a god.
Kurd originates from *kur-ta- or *kur-tar-, which is agent noun of *kur- "to heat", "to incandesce".
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.