An anthology of Russian folk epics

851 Pages·1999·1.85 MB·English

by  James Bailey

An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics
title: Folklores and Folk Cultures of Eastern
Europe
author: Bailey, James
publisher: ME Sharpe, Inc.
isbn10 | asin: 0873326415
print isbn13: 9780873326414
ebook isbn13: 9780585265797
language: English
subject Byliny--Translations into English.
publication date: 1998
lcc: PG3114.A6 1998eb
ddc: 398.2/0947
subject: Byliny--Translations into English.
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Russian Folk Epics
Page ii
Folklores and Folk Cultures of Eastern Europe
SERIES EDITOR:
Linda J. Ivanits
Department of Slavic Languages
Pennsylvania State University
Ukrainian Minstrels
And the Blind Shall Sing
Natalie Kononenko
An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics
Translated with an
Introduction and Commentary by
James Bailey and Tatyana Ivanova
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An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics
Translated with an
Introduction and Commentary by
James Bailey and
Tatyana Ivanova
Page iv
Copyright © 1998 by M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
Paperback edition 1999
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any
form
without written permission from the publisher, M.E. Sharpe, Inc.,
80 Business Park Drive, Armonk, New York 10504.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
An anthology of Russian folk epics/translated with an introduction and
commentary by James Bailey and Tatyana Ivanova.
p. cm.(Folklores and folk cultures of Eastern Europe)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-87332-640-7 (cloth: alk. paper)
ISBN 0-87332-641-5 (pbk: alk. paper)
1. Bylinytranslations into English. I. Bailey, James, 1929
II. Ivanova, T.G. (Tat'iana Grigor'evna) III. Series.
PG3114.A6 1998
398.2'0947dc21
98-17071
CIP
Printed in the United States of America
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of
American National Standard for Information Sciences
Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials,
ANSI Z 39.48-1984.
EB (c) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
EB (p) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2

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Dedicated to the memory of
Boris Nikolaevich Putilov
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CONTENTS
Foreword ix
Linda J. Ivanits
Preface xi
The Russian Oral Epic Tradition: An Introduction xv
I. Epics about the Oldest Heroes
1. Volkh Vseslavyevich 3
2. Svyatogor 12
II. Kievan Cycle
Epics about Ilya Muromets
3. Ilya Muromets and Nightingale the Robber 25
4. Ilya Muromets and Falconer 37
5. Ilya Muromets and Kalin Tsar 49
6. Ilya Muromets Quarrels with Prince Vladimir 69
Epics about Dobrynya
7. Dobrynya and the Dragon 81
8. Dobrynya and Marinka 98
9. Dobrynya Nikitich and Vasily Kazimirovich 106
Epics about Alyosha Popovich
10. Alyosha Popovich, His Squire Yekim, and Tugarin 121
11. Dobrynya and Alyosha Popovich 130

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Epics about Other Kievan Heroes
12. Mikhailo Potyk 147
13. Ivan Godinovich 177
14. Dunai 188
15. Solovei Budimirovich 201
16. Vasily Ignatyev 214
17. Churila Plyonkovich 225
18. Dyuk Stepanovich 253
19. Stavr Godinovich 264
20. Khoten Bludovich 279
III. Novgorod Cycle
21. Sadko 293
22. Vasily Buslayev 307
23. Vasily Buslayev Travels to Jerusalem 319
IV. Epics with Biblical or Religious Subjects
24. Tsar Solomon and Vasily Okulovich 331
25. Forty Pilgrims and One 341
V. Historical Songs of the Sixteenth Century
26. Ivan the Terrible and His Sons 357
27. Kostryuk 365
VI. Skomoroshina