Toponyms in the Charms of the Russian North. I: Seas and Rivers

• Published in: Вопросы Ономастики
• Main Authors: Tatyana A. Agapkina, Elena L. Berezovich, Olesya D. Surikova
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Izdatelstvo Uralskogo Universiteta 2018
• Subjects: toponymy; hydronymy; language of Russian folklore; charms; the Russian North; semantic and motivational reconstruction; History of Civilization; CB3-482; Philology. Linguistics; P1-1091; Kostroma; Jordan River; Arkhangelsk; Russian North
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.15826/vopr_onom.2018.15.1.004; https://doaj.org/article/545bf5b61be242b7bb97031837efdf44

The present paper is the first one in a series of articles focusing on the origins and functioning of place names in oral or handwritten charm texts attested in the Russian North, i.e. in the Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Olonets, and Kostroma regions. The paper examines the names of water bodies (seas and...