A bylina (Russian: былина, IPA: [bɨˈlʲinə]; pl. былины, byliny) is a type of Russian oral epic poem. [1] [2] The oldest byliny are set in the 10th to 12th centuries in Kievan Rus', while others deal with all periods of Russian and Ukrainian history. [1]

bylina, traditional form of Old Russian and Russian heroic narrative poetry transmitted orally. The oldest byliny belong to a cycle dealing with the golden age of Kievan Rus in the 10th–12th century. They centre on the deeds of Prince Vladimir I and his court.

Among Eastern European Slavic folk genres, the bylina–an epic song about the heroic deeds of mighty warriors (bogatyrs)–holds a special place. This term, derived from the past tense of the verb “byt’” (“to be”) means “what happened in the past.”

2024年11月3日 · The term Bylina refers to the epic folk songs of the East Slavic region. This literary genre, rooted in oral tradition, falls somewhere between ballad, folk legend, and fairy tale, yet it is distinguished by its melodious form and essential musical accompaniment.

The byliny (pleural of bylina) are Russian epic songs that are loosely tied to historical events of 11-16th centuries. Byliny were first collected in the mid to late 18 th century.

2019年6月11日 · Bylina as a genre of folk art. The initial name of bylinas is starinas (стари́ны) that means “the old ones”. The term bylina (from the word быль – something that really happened) was introduced only in 1839 and is used until now.

From kings to knaves, dragons to damsels and forests to fortresses, the bylina has them all. With the modern re-telling of bylina stories in film and animation, each new generation of Russians is reminded that there’s no dragon or bandit out there that can’t be …

A bylina (Russian: былина, IPA: [bɨˈlʲinə]; pl. былины, byliny) is a type of Russian oral epic poem. [1] [2] Dobrynya Nikitich rescues Zabava Putyatichna from the dragon Gorynych, by Ivan Bilibin

Bylina (Russian: были́на, also Byliny and Stariny) is a traditional epic, heroic narrative poetry of early East Slavs of Kievan Rus, the tradition continued in Russia and Ukraine. Bylina comes from the Russian "byl'" (быль), a word which signifies a story of …

The term bylina is a nineteenth-century scholarly innovation, although it is found with a different meaning ("true happening") in the Lay of Igor's Campaign and Zadonshchina. Folksingers generally called any such songs starina or starinka (song of olden times).