Ukrajinski prijevodi Priča iz davnine: leksičke i frazeološke osobitosti
Ukrainian translations of Tales of Long Ago and their lexical and phraseological characteristics

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the linguistic peculiarities of the translations of stories from Tales of Long Ago by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić into the Ukrainian language. The translation of “Stribor’s Forest” (“Šuma Striborova”) by Vasily Voytanivskiy was published in 1932 in West Ukraine in the journal Children’s World. The translation by Vily Grymych of Tales of Long Ago came out in 1971, and later, as a separate publication, the publishing house for children in Kiev issued “Toporko the Wanderer and the Nine Princes” (1978). Literary scholars have shown long-standing interest in these fairy tales, and their closeness to Slavic folklore traditions has attracted Ukrainian readers. The familiarity of literary treatment, the characters, narrative, elements of oral storytelling, the similarities between the characters from Ukrainian and Croatian fairy tales, as well as the closeness of the two languages, enabled Grymych to use a large number of appropriate translation solutions to convey the original text. The translator’s mastery is especially evident in the linguistic transformations dictated by the norms of the Ukrainian language.

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