Chernava
In
niece), spirit and personification of the river of the same name. She is a mermaid. Her head and upper body are human, while the lower body is a fish's tail. Chernava is famed from her appearance in the epic of Sadko.[1][2][3]
In Sadko
In the Sadko servant in the palace. When Morskoy Tsar offered Sadko a new bride, Sadko took Chernava and lay down beside her. On their wedding night he did not touch her. When Sadko was asleep, Chernava had transformed into a river, helping him to get into the human world. Sadko woke up on the shore of the river Chernava and rejoined his first wife.
In popular culture
Chernava Colles are named after her.
References
- ^ Fedorovich 1873, p. 400.
- ^ Dixon-Kennedy 1998, p. 52.
- ^ Bailey 2015.
Bibliography
- Fedorovich, Alexander Hilferding (1873), Onegsky byliny, recorded by Alexander Fedorovich Hilferding in the summer of 1871, The Imperial Academy of Sciences, ISBN 978-5-4460-3959-3
- Dixon-Kennedy, Mike (1998), Encyclopedia of Russian and Slavic Myth and Legend, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, ISBN 9781576070635
- Bailey, James (2015), An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics, Routledge, ISBN 978-1317476924
- Bailey, James (2015), An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics, Routledge,
External links
- Краткое содержание и история создания оперы Римского-Корсакова «Садко» на сайте «Belcanto.Ru» (in Russian)
- Bylina «Садков корабль стал на море» (in Russian)
- Bylina «Садко» (in Russian)
- Sadko the bylina
- Prose version
- Sadko as collected by Arthur Ransome in Old Peter's Russian Tales
- Sadko as collected by Arthur Ransome in Old Peter's Russian Tales as a librivox.org audiobook.