Bylina

Bylina

Bylina (Russian: были́на, also "Byliny", "Bylyny" and "Stariny") is a traditional epic, heroic narrative poem of the early East Slavs of Kievan Rus. This poetic tradition continued in Russia and Ukraine.

Bylina comes from the Russian "byl'" (быль), a word which signifies a story of real events, as opposed to a fictional one and a cognate of the English verb to be.

Bylinas are a kind of poetry without rhyme (blank verse), but with a characteristic rhythm, a kind of free verse. Most bylinas were preserved in northern regions of Russia, and their style was imitated by several famous Russian poets.

There are quite a few bylina cycles. Bylinas may be roughly classified into the following series:
* Of the older heroes (Volga Vseslavich, Mikula Selianinovich, Sviatogor)
* Of Vladimir, prince of Kiev, tales of the Golden Age of Kiev, of Kievan Rus'. Here belongs the knights-errant (bogatyr) cycle concerning Ilya Muromets, Alyosha Popovich and Dobrynya Nikitich, being among the most popular bylina.
* Of Novgorod (Vasily Buslaev, Sadko the merchant)
* Of Moscow (of Yermak Timofeyevich, Ivan the Terrible)
* Of the Ukrainian cossack history (in Ukrainian language, of invasions of Turks and Tatars, of Haidamak uprisings)
* Of Cossack insurgents (Stenka Razin)
* Of Peter the Great

ee also

*Duma (epic)

Links

* [http://byliny.narod.ru/] — bylinas in Russian

References

* [http://www.jstor.org/view/00376779/di000485/00p03925/0 : Bylina and Fairy Tale: The Origins of Russian Heroic Poetry.] , Review author [s] : Jack V. Haney Slavic Review © 1975


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