Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtár

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Vászolyi-Vasse Erik
Syrjaenica
Narratives, folklore and folk poetry from eight dialects of the Komi language

CONTENTS, ENVOY


Contents

  • The Story of This Book
  • Narrators, Singers, Performers
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations and Bibliography

Part One: Upper Izhma

  • Introduction
  • Narratives
    1. About His Life
    2. Vaska Mikulaj and Mikulaj Opon
    3. Pekla, Sandra and a Cow
    4. About the New Year
    5. About Easter Sunday
    6. Got Used to It
    7. The Orphans
    8. Prelude to Life
  • Folklore
    9. Superstitious Premonitions
    10. Riddles.
    11. Proverbs and Aphorisms
  • Lyrical Songs..
    1. Evening Was Closing In
    2. Why This Evening.
    3. Chastushkas
  • Notes and Commentary

Part Two: Lower Ob

  • Introduction
  • Narratives.
    1. On Duck Shooting
    2. On Ermine Hunting
    3. On Squirrel Hunting
    4. On Hare Hunting
    5. On Grouse Hunting
    6. An Actual Funny Story
    7. On Clothing
    8. On Fishing
  • Folklore
    9. Fedor the Basket-weaver
  • Notes and Commentary

Part Three: Kanin Peninsula

  • Introduction
  • Narratives
    1. About Her Life
    2. The Reindeer and the Reindeer Herd
    3. Hunting Various Animals
    4. Fish and Fishing
    5. Old Folks and Premonitions
    6. Foodstuff
    7. Footwear and Clothing
    8. Migration
  • Notes and Commentary

Part Four: Upper Jusva

  • Introduction
  • Narratives
    1. It Will Fade Away, All Will Fade Away
    2. When I Come Home
    3. My Aunt and Her Sons
    4. Festive Days
  • Folk Songs
    1. Many Maidens Came Together
    2. Jolly Broad Street
  • Notes and Commentary

Part Five: Middle Inva

  • Introduction
  • Narratives
    1. Autobiography
    2. Sowing Season
    3. Harvesting
    4. Flax Production
    5. Once While Picking Raspberries.
    6. Wedding Traditions
    7. Festive Celebrations
    8. Name-day
  • Folk Tales
    1. The Soldier and the King
    2. The Crow's Help
  • Riddles
  • Proverbs and Aphorisms
  • Folk Songs
    1. I Have Picked the Berries
    2. Fair Maiden
    3. We Are Sowing Millet
    4. Chastushkas
  • Notes and Commentary

Part Six: Udora

  • Introduction
  • Narratives
    1. The Fox with no Tail
    2. Blackgrouse Shooting
    3. One Bear, a Hundred Bears
    4. A Calf with Eight Legs
    5. A Hundred or so Blackgrouse
    6. You're Fibbing
    7. The Heron and the Crane
    8. The Clergyman's Bread
    9. The Clergyman and His Labourer
    10. Russian Ivan and Abraham the Jew
    11. Encounter with a Bear
    12. Swan Shooting
    13. An Owlet in the Fish-trap
    14. Where Bears Mate
    15. How a Bear Struggled with a Bull
    16. The Bear and the Stallion
    17. Bear Shooting
    18. My Father's Stories
    19. When a Bear Outsmarted Me
    20. Up along the Pyssa River
    21. The Grayling That Never Was Mine
    22. The Horse-doctor and the Calf
    23. The Two Bear Cubs
    24. Our Fish Are Lost
    25. When the Cowherd Falls Asleep on the Field
  • Notes and Commentary

Envoy

The reader will have found my name on the cover page and that would, of course, suggest authorship. Yet I have no claim to be the author of this publication. In actual fact I feel that I have merely been a scribe and a guardian entrusted with the task of keeping and publishing these records of Komi culture and language bestowed upon me by the real authors: all those men and women, young and old, whose stories and songs and life experiences and wisdom are commemorated on the pages of this book for the edification of readers, present and future. I feel privileged to have earned their trust and friendship that I have treasured for so many years and will treasure till the end of my days. Ich bin jung gewesen und alt geworden . The mission of my life was to keep and hand down these records of Komi language and culture to my contemporaries and to posterity. With the publication of this book, the mission will have been accomplished.

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