Review article
The Drava river and the Mura affluent as a homeland, barrier and mythical waters of the međimurje and the vicinal Kaikavian traditional poetry
Lidija Bajuk
orcid.org/0000-0003-4335-9390
; Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The Drava River and its the Mura affluent are the motifs of the Kaikavian traditional poetry of Međimurje, Podravina and the Croatian Hinterland. This flows represent a real local rivers, which are a physical barrier and a communication way at the same time, which give life and induce the backlash. Sometimes sung as the mythical waters which separate real world and otherworld, they don’t explicitly appointed. Mysterious swamps, seas, rivers, lakes, abysses and wells, which deities or supernatural beings get around, testify about historical encountering and pervasion of Croatian pre-Christian and Christian spirituality.
Keywords
Drava and Mura; Kaikavian traditional poetry; homeland; barrier and mythical water; supernatural water phenomena
Hrčak ID:
190699
URI
Publication date:
1.6.2017.
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