Local Features of Ballads in Northeast Siberia: Plots of ‘The Mother-in-Law Held Captive by Her Son-in-Law’ and ‘Prince Volkonsky and the Gatekeeper’

• Published in: Nauchnyi dialog
• Main Author: O. I. Charina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Tsentr nauchnykh i obrazovatelnykh proektov 2023
• Subjects: folklore text; ballad songs; song plots; folklore motifs; yakut folklore; Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages; PG1-9665; Indigirka; Kolyma; Magadan; kolyma river; Yakut; Yakutia; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2023-12-6-285-306; https://doaj.org/article/c14822d6abda4c5eb49e6f5de282a2c2

This article aims to clarify the characteristics of the ballad genre among other works in Northeast Siberia (in Yakutia and a separate settlement in the Magadan region). It examines the local features of ballad song variants recorded from long-time residents of Northeast Yakutia. The source material...