A Neo-Aramaic Version of a Kurdish FolktaleJournal of Semitic StudiesSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/RVARC3JI/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Charles G.HäberlNikitaKuzinSergeyLoesovAlexeiLyavdanskyA Neo-Aramaic Version of a Kurdish Folktalehttp://syriaca.org/cbss/RVARC3JIhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/RVARC3JIhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/RVARC3JIJournal of Semitic Studies65:22020473-493Versions of the folktale Zêrka Zêra (in Kurdish)/Stērka Zerá (in Ṭuroyo) circulate throughout southeastern Anatolia. The story belongs to a widely-disseminated tale type, the ‘Bear's Wife’, which concerns a young woman who is abducted by a bear (or other wilderness creature) and is forced to spawn and rear his children before escaping or being rescued. The following Ṭuroyo version was recorded during the 2018 winter field season of the Russian expedition to Ṭur Abdin in the village of Ḥaḥ/Anıtlı from a speaker of the dialect of Bequsyone. It represents the first scholarly publication not only of the Ṭuroyo version, but of any version of this folktale. In addition to the folktale and a translation, the study includes a glossary of the vocabulary used within the text, reflecting some Ṭuroyo words that have not been documented elsewhere. The paper also discusses the motifs of the Stērka Zerá folktale according to the standard classification scheme of folk motifs.
Häberl, Charles G., Nikita Kuzin, Sergey Loesov, and Alexei Lyavdansky. “A Neo-Aramaic Version of a Kurdish Folktale.” Journal of Semitic Studies 65:2 (2020): 473–93.
Charles G. Häberl et al., A Neo-Aramaic Version of a Kurdish Folktale,Journal of Semitic Studies 65:2 (2020): 473–93.HahKurdsModern SyriacMuslim-Christian relationsTuroyoXIX-XXI CEXXI CEanimalsfairy talesfolkloreprimary sources [Syriac] + English translationwomen