
bylina
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Within Vinony's link graph, bylina is referenced by 364 other articles, and connects out to Veliky Novgorod, Kievan Rus' and Vladimir the Great.
It is catalogued under topics including Epic poetry, Medieval legends and Medieval poetry.
Its subject is documented across 39 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Russian folklore
- Image
- Die drei Bogatyr.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Bylina
- Commons category
- Bylina
- different from
- bilins
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Terminology
- History
- Origins
- Later history
- Research history
- Scholarly approaches
- Collections
- Classifications
- ''Bylina'' cycles
- Structure
- Common themes
- Major characters and prototypes
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
thumb| Dobrynya Nikitich rescues Zabava Putyatichna from the dragon Gorynych, by [[Ivan Bilibin (1941)]]
A ' (, ; ), also popularly known as a starina''''' (), is a type of Russian oral epic poem.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “bylina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.