Russian Folk-Tales

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Russian Folk-Tales

Russian Folk-Tales

Alexander Afanasyev, Alexander Afanáśev

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With introduction and notes by Leonard A. Magnus, LL.B.

It should be stated that the store of primitive folklore of the Slavs has scarcely been touched. The Slav peoples conserved primitive Aryan customs almost up to the middle of the nineteenth century; and then these were industriously and conscientiously compiled. Taking Russia alone, there are collections of magic formulas, ceremonial songs of Pagan origin, volumes of traditional ballads; and the ancient munic has also been recorded. But Bulgaria, Little-Russia, Serbia, Bohemia, and all the Slav countries have similar compilations; and every one of these nationalities is as strongly individualized, as are, say, the Danes, the Dutch, and the Germans.

These stories have been translated direct from the Russian of Afanáśev; the selection is intended to represent, as completely as possible, the varieties of Russian folk-tale. As far as an analytic language, like modern English, can render so highly inflected a tongue as Russian, the translator has tried to keep strictly to the style and diction of the originals, which are the undoctored traditional stories.

Kategorie:

Children's Books - Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

Rok:

1916

Wydanie:

Wydawnictwo:

Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.

Język:

english

Strony:

376

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