Formulas and Motifs of the Kalmyk Heroic Tale: a Comparative Analysis Revisited
https://doi.org/10.22162/2500-1523-2018-14-156-167
Abstract
The article deals with some text elements of Kalmyk heroic tales, the latter being compared to samples of epic genres of other peoples, mainly those of Siberia’s Turkic populations. Recent publications of Kalmyk heroic tales provide new opportunities for comparing the fabulous texts with songs (chapters) of the Kalmyk heroic epic of Jangar and studying the interaction between epic and fairy-tale forms. There are distinct traces of mutual influence between Kalmyk heroic tales and fairy tales of the Altai Tuvans, which is interesting enough and is essential for further studies of the interaction between the Mongolic (Oirat) and Turkic oral traditions. Separate motifs that manifest themselves in the Kalmyk epic and heroic tales have analogies among the Samoyedic peoples, and have probably been inherited by Kalmyk folklore from the West Siberian or South Siberian folklore traditions.
About the Author
A. Burykin
Kalmyk Scientific Center of the RAS (8, Ilishkin Str., Elista, 358000, Russian Federation)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Ph.D. in Philology (Doct. of Philological Sc.), Ph.D. in History (Doct. of Historical Sc.), Leading Research Associate, Department of Mongolian Philology
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Burykin A. Formulas and Motifs of the Kalmyk Heroic Tale: a Comparative Analysis Revisited. Mongolian Studies. 2018;10(3):156-167. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22162/2500-1523-2018-14-156-167
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