Представите за царя и царското във фолклорния жанр исторически песни: на границата между документалното и художественото
The ideas about the king and the royal in the folklore genre of historical songs: on the border between the documentary and the artistic

Summary/Abstract: The text sets out to examine the way the tzar/ the king is represented in Bulgarian folklore. It comes out that in genres directly deriving from the ancient myth, the invariant original image of the king has been preserved in a comparatively intelligible/comprehensible manner. The genres that are considered to be more directly related to history than to myth have not have not kept the memory of any real Bulgarian king. The conclusion is that Bulgarian folklore inherits oldest features of the primal idea of power. On the contrary, historical memories embedded in it are too pale and unreliable.

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