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

https://hrcak.srce.hr/190699

Publication date:

1.6.2017.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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