Po stopách cyrilometodějské tradice v prozaickém folkloru a v některých vlastních jménech Moravy a Slezska
| Title in English | Following the Cyril-and-Methodius Tradition in Prosaic Folklore and in Moravia and Silesia’s Proper Names |
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Národopisná revue |
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| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | Cyril and Methodius tradition; prosaic folklore; onomastics; Moravia; Silesia |
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| Description | The aim of that essay is to trace the basic features as regards content, which characterize the Cyril and Methodius tradition in prosaic folklore, and which in form of a short message – regest – form a part of cultural and historical awareness. In folklore narrations in Moravia and Silesia, the Cyril-and-Methodius cycle keeps it stable position. The corresponding interest in this cycle is growing in dependence on the development in social and cultural conditions – e.g. in the second half of the 19th century in connection with strengthening the national identity (which found expression in the St. Wenceslas cycle in Bohemia) or with forming the historical awareness of so-called Moravian identity. It emphasizes the Christianizing and cultural importance. The present revitalization of the cult bears witness thereof. The cult is spread especially in the regions from the South of Moravian through Eastern Moravian to Silesia (so-called wider Opava Region) and adjacent regions of the ethnographic area of Haná (to the region of Litovel). In Western Moravia, only a reference to apostles’ journey to Bohemia occurs. The essay is concluded with an analysis of names occurring in etymological legends, as well as with notes concerning folk etymology. |