Mikhailov4

STUDIA MYTHOLOGICA SLAVICA
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STUDIA MYTHOLOGICA SLAVICA 4, 2001

Nikolai Mikhailov:

Ein Traktat über die slawischen Götter aus dem XVII.Jh.:
M.Fren(t)zel,Dissertationes historicae tres de idolis Slavorum

(The Tractate on Slavic Deities from the 17th Century:
M.Fren(t)zel, Dissertationes historicae tres de idolis Slavorum)

Abstract

The paper examines a mythological tractate of the Lusatian researcher Michael Frenzel (Fren{t}zel) on Slavic deities from the 17th century. The tractate (“three dissertations”), which contains an eclectic description of the Slavic and the Lusatian pantheons, is a typical case of the so-called “cabinet mythology”. This kind of literature, nevertheless, also needs to be analyzed: in part as a monument to scientific thought, partly (although with a large dose of caution) as a secondary source for the reconstruction of local -in this case Lusatian - mythological tradition.

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