Kalinowym mostem chodziłam, kalinowe serce zgubiłam
Kalinowym mostem chodziłam, kalinowe serce zgubiłam

Continuations and Transformations of Folk Motifs in Literary Texts

Summary/Abstract: The author analyzes the relationship between the folk images of viburnum, viburnum bridge and viburnum grove, as they all are reconstructed in the Lublin ethnolinguistic dictionary, and viburnum motifs identified in five selected literary texts: Teofil Lenartowicz’ Kalina ‘Viburnum’ (1845), Wincenty Korotyński’s Two Loves (1857), Krystyna Krahelska’s Kalinowym mostem chodziłam ‘I Used to Walk over the Viburnum Bridge’ (1941), Andrzej Trzebiński’s Wymarsz Uderzenia (1943) and Tadeusz Urgacz’ Kalinowe serce ‘Viburnum Heart’ (1961). As a result, both continuation and transformation of folk motifs can be detected. What connects the “Viburnum” motifs and the images created from them in the literary works representing different eras, times and styles is the world of values communicated by means of a symbol. The recurring value, as projected here in/by the central symbol of the viburnum, appears to be love.

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