Matka pieśni polskich
The Mother of the Polish Songs

Summary/Abstract: Andrzej Dąbrówka writes about the textual sources of "Bogurodzica" in two Latin sequences: "Ave Dei Genitrix" and "Gaude mater luminis". He evokes a manuscript from the year 1411 (issued in Berlin in 1982) which described "Bogurodzica" as a Christmas song. The source remained unnoticed by philologists and was underestimated by historians. Resorting to the political explanation of Hashold, Dąbrówka in conclusion turns to dating Bogurodzica back closer to the times shortly before the Battle of Grunwald (Tannenberg).

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