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Migrační motivy ve slovanských a germánských tradicích
| Title in English | Migrational motifs in Slavic and Germanic traditions |
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Archeologie ve středních Čechách |
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| Keywords | Migration; Slavic; Germanic; chronicles; ancient motifs; biblical motifs |
| Description | The contribution summarizes the most important information about the migrational motifs in the medieval chronicles or historical treatises, written largely from the 6th till 15th century (with one exception of Cassius Dio, informing us about migrations of the Vandals already in the 3rd century). The primary souces are usually written in Latin, less frequently in Greek, and sporadically in other languages as Old English, Old Gutnic, Old Russian / Church Slavonic, Old Czech, Hebrew, Arabic. The motifs from individual stories are compared, applying the methods used in comparative mythology. The results show the basic difference separating the migrational motifs of Slavic and Germanic origin. The Slavic migrational motifs operate with the mainland transfer, while for the Germanic traditions the migrations over seas are characteristic. Another distinctive feature could be such the detail as two leaders – brothers, characteristic for the migrating Germanic tribes, while the migrating Slavic tribes probably were led originally only by one leader and their higher number in some sources was a result of creativity of later chroniclers. Other partial motifs are frequently inspired by biblical or ancient traditions and were adopted into the individual Slavic or Germanic traditions to demonstrate the continuity of the first rulers with biblical or ancient heroes or historical personages. |
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