ПОВЕСТ О ТРИШТАНУ И ИЖОТИ: СРПСКА, БЕЛОРУСКА И ПОЉСКА ГЛЕДИШТА
THE BYELORUSSIAN TRISTAN: SERBIAN, BYELORUSSIAN AND POLISH VIEWS

Summary/Abstract: The Byelorussian Tristan is a unique Slavonic rendering of the French thirteenth‒century Prose Tristan. It survives in the Byelorussian language, in a single, late sixteenth‒century manuscript preserved at the Raczyński Public Library in Poznan, Poland (MS 94). It is generally accepted that The Byelorussian Tristan stems from a now lost Serbian medieval romance on Tristan and Isolt. Taking into account the Serbian, Byelorussian and Polish views on The Byelorussian Tristan, this paper aims to demonstrate that the Slavonic retelling of the Prose Tristan, like certain other works of Serbian medieval literature, departs form romance and changes into a kind of a ‘feudal epic’, much more appealing to the audience of the period, unaccustomed to the notion of courtly love.

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