Original scientific paper

Unpublished Croatian version of the St Eustace’s Legend

Kristina Štrkalj Despot

Abstract

The transcription, analyses of the graphic, orthographic and linguistic characteristics and vocabulary of the unpublished Croatian version of St Eustace’s Legend (called Od Placida, viteza rimskoga) are provided in the paper. On the basis of comparison with the Latin version of the same legend in the popular Legenda Aurea the conclusion about the direct translation from Latin is formed. Linguistic characteristics of the text lead to assumption about the čakavian provenance of the text (southern part of the čakavian-ikavian-ekavian dialect), precisely the region of the island Vrgada or northern regions.

Keywords

Legenda Aurea; Fantović’s codex; St Eustace; Placidus; Croatian language of 15th/16th century

Hrčak ID:

9408

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/9408

Publication date:

22.2.2006.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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