The motif of establishment of relationships in the Karelian wedding runes
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Philology
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Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrozavodsk, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: the ceremony of the Karelian wedding was accompanied by the performance of various folklore works, which performed a certain function and were a reflection of the ritual. The article, based on the texts of the Karelian wedding runes, considers how the process of change of the family and kin status by the bride after marriage took place in the folk tradition. The theme of parting with the parental home and kin is presented in the analyzed texts through stable motifs and images.
Objective: to consider through textual analysis with ethnographic context the representation of the image of a young wife and the images of other figures exposing the establishment of new kinship relationships.
Research materials: the archival and published variants of Karelian wedding runes recorded during the second half of the XIX – first half of the XX centuries. Additional sources are the dialectal Karelian dictionaries and collections of folklore texts of various genres.
Results and novelty of the research: the result of the study is identification and description of the plots, motifs, poetic formulas and methods that characterize the status of a young wife in her husband’s home and describing the process of
establishment of new family relations. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the fact that the material of the Karelian wedding runes is used as an independent object of research for the first time. The analyzed names and the motif of establishment of new family relations are considered with the help of linguistic and ethnographic sources, which allows us to fully reveal their semantics.
Key words: folklore studies, Karelian folklore, Karelian wedding runes, motif of establishment of new family relations, Karelian people.
Acknowledgements: the study was carried out within the framework of the state task of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
For citation: Mironova V. P. The motif of establishment of relationships in the Karelian wedding runes // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2021; 11 (1): 52– 62.
ABSTRACT
Introduction: the ceremony of the Karelian wedding was accompanied by the performance of various folklore works, which performed a certain function and were a reflection of the ritual. The article, based on the texts of the Karelian wedding runes, considers how the process of change of the family and kin status by the bride after marriage took place in the folk tradition. The theme of parting with the parental home and kin is presented in the analyzed texts through stable motifs and images.
Objective: to consider through textual analysis with ethnographic context the representation of the image of a young wife and the images of other figures exposing the establishment of new kinship relationships.
Research materials: the archival and published variants of Karelian wedding runes recorded during the second half of the XIX – first half of the XX centuries. Additional sources are the dialectal Karelian dictionaries and collections of folklore texts of various genres.
Results and novelty of the research: the result of the study is identification and description of the plots, motifs, poetic formulas and methods that characterize the status of a young wife in her husband’s home and describing the process of
establishment of new family relations. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the fact that the material of the Karelian wedding runes is used as an independent object of research for the first time. The analyzed names and the motif of establishment of new family relations are considered with the help of linguistic and ethnographic sources, which allows us to fully reveal their semantics.
Key words: folklore studies, Karelian folklore, Karelian wedding runes, motif of establishment of new family relations, Karelian people.
Acknowledgements: the study was carried out within the framework of the state task of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
For citation: Mironova V. P. The motif of establishment of relationships in the Karelian wedding runes // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2021; 11 (1): 52– 62.
