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The Connection Between the Trilogy of the academic Radoslav Katičić and the Folk Song and Folk Customs from Novi Vinodolski: On the Trail of a Real Historical Story
Branko Blažević
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Abstract
This document showcases the results of the research of the great Croatian and world-renowned philologist Radoslav Katičić, with a special emphasis on those parts which relate most directly to the distant history and culture of Novi Vinodolski. We are talking about connecting the sacred land and the great gods of the pagan Slavs near Veles and Žrnovnica below Povile near Novi Vinodolski. The author emphasizes the subtle analysis by which Katičić discovers unknown layers of oral traditions preserved in songs and reconstructed texts that have left a mark on the traditional folk customs of Novi Vinodolski, especially in its carnival oral folk drama. By using concrete examples which were described in detail, using words and images, in the book “Polak običaja i navade stare – Mesopusni običaji Novog Vinodolskog – usmena pučka drama” (Customs and practices of the old - Carnival customs of Novi Vinodolski - oral folk drama), as well as in the Book of remembrance of the People’s library of Novi Vinodolski II - “Pisme novljanskog kola i druge narodne pisme” (Songs of the dance from Novi Vinodolski and other folk songs – the author finds a connection with the philological archeology of academic Katičić. The author of the article concludes that Katičić’s findings, published in the trilogy “Božanski boj”, “Zeleni lug” and “Gazdarica na vratima”, became the theoretical foundations, as well as real potential for further perception of the cultural and economic, tourism and overall development of the Novi Vinodolski, and even broader.
Keywords
Radoslav Katičić; Proto-Slavic texts; word of mouth; Perun; Veles; Novi Vinodolski; carnival customs
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331099
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Publication date:
12.12.2021.
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