Priče iz davnine. Priče i predaje Ukrajinaca iz Hrvatske (Kaniža)
Stories from Past Times. Tales and Legends of the Ukrainians in Croatia (Kaniža)

Summary/Abstract: The author discusses story-telling of the Ukrainians from Slavonia on the basis of already published material and her own fieldwork. She investigates two mutually interrelated linguistic and thematic layers: the impact of the Croatian language and Croatian oral literature on Ukrainian tales (on story-telling in Ukrainian) and the preserved elements of Ukrainian language (and tradition) in the tales told in Croatian. The elements of the Croatian language in Ukrainian tales are studied in their German translations where Croatian expressions have been left untranslated. In Croatian recordings of the same tales that layer cannot be seen. In the recordings of Ukrainian tales in Croatian the elements of Ukrainian are of course noticeable. In discussing the interrations of the story-telling repertoire of the Croats and the Ukrainians it is pointed that story-telling is a living process, i. e. that certain motifs flow from one tradition to another. This is illustrated by the comparison of motifs of Ukrainian tales with the motifs of Croatian tales from the same village, and with the variants of the same tales from Slavonia.

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