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Title Russian folklore : an anthology in English translation / by Alex E. Alexander ; foreword by William E. Harkins.

Imprint Belmont, Mass. : Nordland Pub. Co., [1975]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Eucalyptus  398.20947 R92 1975    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 400 pages ; 23 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Ceremonial poetry connected with the calendar. Yuletide carols -- Divinatory song of the Yuletide season -- Shrovetide songs -- Songs celebrating spring -- Seventh Thursday : Whitsun songs -- Harvest songs.
Wedding ceremonials and chants. Matchmaking -- The bath -- The reception for the bride -- The morning of the wedding day -- Arrival of the groom in the bride's house -- Arrival home and the end of the day -- The princely table -- The parting table.
Funeral laments. A lament on the death of a daughter.
Charms. A charm against toothaches -- Love charm -- Love charm.
Proverbs and proverbial sayings. Love and marriage -- The wolf and the fox -- Folk wisdom on various topics.
Folktales : fairy tales. Chestnut-Grey -- Vasilisa the beautiful -- Maria Morevna the lovely tsarevna -- Tsarevich Ivan and the grey wolf -- Go there I know not where, fetch that I know not what.
Folktales : animal tales. The fox and the crane -- The bear -- The muzhik, the bear, and the fox.
Folktales : tales of everyday life. The gossipy wife -- How the poor man dined with his lord.
The Russian folk epos. Volkh Vseslavevich -- Dobrynia and the dragon -- Aliosha Popovich and Tugarin Zmeevich -- Ilia Muromets and Nightingale the brigand -- The ship of Sadko stood still at sea -- Vasilii Buslaevich.
Historical songs. The capture of Kazan -- The Swedish king wants to capture Poltava -- Peter the First is sailing -- A soldier mourns the death of Peter the Great -- Suvorov transports his army across the sea -- The beginning of the uprising on the Iaik -- Pugachev and Panin.
The ballad. Tartar captivity -- Prince Roman rid himself of his wife -- The young lad and the princess -- A young lad and the river Smorodina -- Down the Volga.
Religious verses. The book of the dove -- Forty pilgrims and one -- Joseph's lament.
Songs of serfdom -- Love lyrics -- The chastushka [folk rhyme]. Chastushki.
Subject Folklore -- Soviet Union.
Folk literature, Soviet.
Folk literature, Soviet. (OCoLC)fst00929309
Folklore. (OCoLC)fst00930306
Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
Added Author Alexander, Alex E.
ISBN 0913124060
9780913124062

 
    
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