Legends and riddles of the earth Novgorod: Gennady Kovalenko

The Russian North is an inexhaustible storehouse of legends and legends. The expedition of the folklorists, who have survived to this day in the appearance of songs and conspiracies, open mythological plots, the roots of which go deep into the depths of millennia. In the Russian North, a national epic was recorded, epics about the brave heroes and wise magicians. Moreover, an amazing thing! – Even the epics of the Kyiv cycle were most fully preserved not in the South Russian regions, but on the land of the Novgorod, not only on the banks of Volkhov and Ilmen, but also in the even more northern limits, at the jelly sea, along which the Novgorod Pomors went to the lands on their light, but such reliable cockes. What can we say about the epics and legends born in the Great Novgorod – about the prophetic guslyar of Sadko, who visited the underwater kingdom and learned his secrets, about Bogatyr Vasily Buslavich … These plots have been explored by scientists for one and a half centuries, and still in them remains a lot of unsolved. Not only oral, but also written Novgorod traditions, Vosh …

Author
Kovalenko Gennady Mikhailovich
Editor
Smirnov N.M.
Publisher
Veche, 2012
Series
Great secrets of history
Genre
History of Russia until 1917