Quotes from the epic sadko. Interpretation of the Legend of Sadko. The composition of the epic "Sadko"

Sadko is a young guslar from Veliky Novgorod, a hero of epics with mythological features, who got rich with the help of the sea king. There is an opinion that the prototype of this hero is the famous Novgorod merchant Sotko Sytinich, who built a church in gratitude for his salvation at sea. According to the story of the epic, Sadko started a dispute with other merchants that he would be able to buy up all the goods of the city and still remain rich. This dispute was lost and the guslar undertook to pay the merchants thirty thousand. After that, Sadko built thirty ships and with the purchased goods set off on a sea voyage. Having sold out Novgorod goods in overseas cities and countries with great profit, he returned home. However, on the way back, a strange thing happened. All the ships stood at sea, they did not want to move on. The sea king himself did not give them a way.

Then Sadko sacrificed himself and descended into the magical underwater world. There the tsar happily greeted him and asked him to play the harp, and he began to dance. From his dancing, the sea became restless and many ships were sunk. Sadko's ships still managed to safely reach Novgorod, and the tsar did not calm down. Then Saint Mikola Mozhaisky whispered in the guslar's ear that he could break the strings and stop the music. This is what Sadko did to calm the sea. In gratitude, the king invited him to choose his bride and stay in the sea kingdom. Mikola Mozhaisky advised to choose the one called Chernavushka. So he did, and the next morning after the feast he woke up in Novgorod on the shore, where his ships were safe and sound. With the funds raised from the sea voyage, Sadko built a church in honor of Mikola Mozhaisky. He never went out to sea again and lived for himself in the glorious Nové Grad.

Sadko

In glorious Nové grad
Like Sadko the merchant, a rich guest.
And before, Sadok had no property:
Some were spring goose;
Sadko walked and played on the feasts.

Sadka day is not called for a feast of honor,


Sadko missed that.

Sat on a white-combustible stone


It was then that Sadko got overwhelmed,

Another is not called for a feast
And the third is not invited to an honorable feast,
Sadko missed that.
As Sadko went to Lake Ilmen,
Sat on a white-combustible stone
And he began to play yarchat goose.
As soon as the water shook in the lake,
It was then that Sadko got overwhelmed,
I went away from the lake to my own Novgorod.

Sadka day is not called for an honorable feast,
Another is not called for a feast
And the third is not invited to an honorable feast,
Sadko missed that.
As Sadko went to Lake Ilmen,
Sat on a white-combustible stone
And he began to play yarchat goose.
As soon as the water shook in the lake,
The king of the sea appeared,
I left Ilmeni from the lake,
He himself spoke these words:
- Oh, you, Sadho Novgorod!
I do not know what will you welcome
For your joy for the great,
For your tender play:
Al countless gold treasury?
Otherwise go to Novgorod
And hit the big bet
Lay down your riot head
And unload from other merchants
Red goods stalls
And argue that in Lake Ilmen
There is a fish - gold feathers.
As you hit the big bet
And go and tie a silk net
And come fishing in Lake Ilmen:
I'll give you three fish - feathers of gold.
Then you, Sadko, will be happy!
Sadko went from Ilmen from the lake,
How Sadko came to his Novgorod,
They summoned Sadok to an honorable feast.
How is Sadko Novgorodsky
He began to play in the spring-chanted guseries;
How did Sadka begin to drink,
They began to wear Sadka,
Then Sadko began to boast:
- Oh, you, Novgorod merchants!
As I know the miraculous in Lake Ilmen:
And there is a fish - gold feathers in Lake Ilmen!

How is it that the merchants of Novgorod
These are the words they say to him:
- You don't know the miracle,
There can be no fish in the Ilmen Lake - gold feathers.

Oh, you, merchants of Novgorod!
What are you betting with me about a great bet?
Let's hit the big bet:
I'll lay my riotous head
And you fill the shops with red goods.
Three merchants threw themselves out,
We have laid three shops for red goods,
How did they tie a silk net
And we went fishing in Lake Ilmen.
They threw a tonka into Ilmen Lake,
We got a fish - gold feathers;
They threw another little thing into Ilmen Lake,
They got another fish - gold feathers;
The third was thrown into Ilmen Lake,
They got the third fish - gold feathers.
Here are the merchants of Novgorod
We gave away three shops of red goods.

Sadko began to trade,
He began to receive great profits.
In their white stone chambers
Sadko arranged everything in heavenly way:
The sun is in the sky - and the sun is in the chambers,
There is a month in heaven - and a month in the wards,
There are stars in the sky, and stars in the chambers.

Then Sadko the merchant, a rich guest,
I invited to my place for a feast
You guys from Novgorod
And your abbots of Novgorod:
Thomas Nazarev and Luka Zinoviev.

Everyone ate at the feast
Everybody got drunk at the feast
All boasted of boasting.
Others boast of countless golden treasuries,
The other boasts a good fortune,
Who boasts a good horse,
Who boasts a glorious middle name.
Nice patronymic, young youth,
The clever brags about the old priest,
Insane brags about his young wife.

The abbots of Novgorod say:
- We all ate at the feast,
Everybody got drunk on the honorable
All boasted of boasting.
What, then, does Sadko not boast of anything?
That Sadko doesn't boast of anything in our country?
- And what can I, Sadku, brag about,
What can I, Sadku, boast about?
My treasury doesn’t run out of gold,
Colored dress is not worn,
The horobra squad does not change.
And to boast is not to boast of the countless golden treasury:
On my countless gold treasury
I will buy goods from Novgorod,
Thin goods and good!

Before he had time to utter a word,
As abbots of Novogorodsk
Hit the big bet
About countless golden treasury
About thirty thousand money:
How to buy back Sadok new city goods,
Thin goods and good,
So that in Novo-grad there were no more goods on sale.
Sadko set up early the next day,
I woke up my squad Good,

And he himself went straight to the living room,
How I bought the goods of Novgorod,
Thin goods and good,

The next day, Sadko became early,
I woke up my brave squad,
I gave the gold treasury without counting
And he disbanded the squad along the trading streets,

Doubly goods were brought,
Doubly goods filled
To the glory of the great Novgorodskaya.
Again I bought goods from Novgorod,
Thin goods and good,
For my treasury of countless gold.

On the third day, Sadko became early,
I woke up my brave squad,
I gave the gold treasury without counting
And he disbanded the squad along the trading streets,
And he himself went straight to the living room:
Triple goods brought in,
Triple goods filled,
Moscow goods arrived
To the great glory of Novgorodskaya.

How did Sadko think about it:
"Do not redeem goods from all over the world:
I will also buy Moscow goods,
Overseas goods will arrive in time.
Not me, apparently, the merchant is rich in Novgorod -
Glorious Novgorod is richer than me. "
He gave the abbots of Novgorod
He's thirty thousand dollars.

On my countless gold treasury
Sadko built thirty ships,
Thirty ships, thirty black;
On those on ships on blackened
Dumped Novgorod goods,
Sadko drove along the Volkhov,
From Volkhov to Ladoga,
And from Ladozhsk to the Neva River,
And from the Neva River in the blue sea.
As he rode across the blue sea,
He turned the Horde into Gold,
I sold Novgorod goods,
Received great profits,
I poured in forty barrels of red gold, pure silver,
Traveled back to Novgorod
He rode on the blue sea.

The weather was strong on the blue sea,
The ships on the blue sea have stalled:

Breaks blackened boats;

Says Sadko the merchant, a rich guest,
To his squad, to the brave:
- Oh, you good druzhinushka!
How we rode the sea for centuries,
But tribute was not paid to the king of the sea:
Apparently, the king of the sea demands tribute from us,
Requires tribute in the blue sea.
Ai, brothers, a brave squad!
Take a forty barrel pure silver,
Lower the barrel in the blue sea, -
His brave squad
I took a barrel of pure silver,
Launching a barrel in the blue sea;
And it beats with a wave, tears the sails,
Breaks blackened ships
And the ships do not leave their place on the blue sea.

Here his squad is brave
I took a barrel-forty red gold,
Lowered a barrel in the blue sea:
And it beats with a wave, tears the sails,
Breaks blackened ships
And the ships still do not leave their place on the blue sea.
Sadko the merchant, a rich guest, says:
- Apparently, the king of the sea requires
Live head in the blue sea.
Do, brothers, the foals of the Volzhans,
I'll do it myself in red on gold,
Sign all your names,
Lose the lot on the blue sea:
Whose lot will go to the bottom,
Such a walk in the blue sea.

The Volzhans made their lot,
And Sadko himself did on red on gold,
Everyone signed their name,
Losing lots on the blue sea.
Like the whole squad is brave
The lot of gogol float on the water,

Sadko the merchant, a rich guest, says:
These lots are wrong:
Make lots of red on gold
And I will make a wolf's lot.
They made lots on red on gold,
And Sadko himself was making a lot of wolves.
Everyone signed their name,
Losing lots on the blue sea:
Like the whole squad is brave
The lots of gogol float along the zoda,
And at Sadok the merchant - the key to the bottom.

Sadko the merchant, a rich guest, says:
- Ai, brothers, a brave squad!
Apparently the king of the sea demands
Sadok the richest in the blue sea.
Carry my imposing ink,
Swan feather, stamped sheet of paper.

They brought him an imposing ink,
Swan feather, heraldic sheet of paper,
He began to write off the property:
Which property he wrote off to the churches of God,
Another property of the poor brothers,
A different property for a young wife,
The rest of the estate to the good-looking squad.

Sadko the merchant, a rich guest spoke:
- Ai, brothers, a brave squad!
Give me the young gusels,
Play the rest for me:
Don't play the gusels anymore.
Ali take my gusli with me in the blue sea?

He takes the spring goose,
He himself says these words:
- Dump the oak plank into the water:
Even though I fall onto an oak plank
I'm not so scared to accept death in the blue sea.
Dumped an oak plank into the water,
Then ships rode across the blue sea,
They flew like black crows.

Sadko remained on the blue sea.
From the passion of the great
I fell asleep on an oak plank.
Sadko woke up in the blue sea,
In the blue sea at the very bottom
I saw the red sun shimmering through the water,
Evening dawn, morning dawn.
Saw Sadko: in the blue sea
There is a white-stone chamber.
Sadko went into the white chamber:
The king of the sea is sitting in the chamber,
The king's head is like a heap of hay.
The king says these are the words:
- Ah, you, Sadko-merchant, a rich guest!
For ages you, Sadko, rode the sea,
I, the king, did not pay tribute,
And all nonh came to me in gifts.
They will say that they are a master of playing the gusellars;
Play for me the spring goose.

How Sadko began to play the spring goose,
As the king of the sea began to dance in the blue sea,
How the king of the sea danced.
Sadko played for a day, played and others
Yes, Sadko played and the third -
And all the king of the sea dances in the blue sea.
In the blue sea, the water shook
With yellow sand, the water was confused,
Many ships began to crash on the blue sea,
Many people of the estate began to die,
Many righteous people began to drown.

How the people began to pray to Mikola Mozhaisky,
As he touched Sadok on the right shoulder:
- Oh, you, Sadko Novgorodsky!
Play full of gusselyki Yarovchaty! -
He turned around, looking at Sadko Novgorod:
There is also a gray old man.
Sadko Novgorodsky spoke:
- I do not have my own will in the blue sea,
Ordered to play in the gussek yarchaty.

The old man says these are the words:
- And you pluck the strings,
And you poke out the pins,
Say: "My strings did not happen,
And the pins were not useful,
Nothing else to play
The young gusels have broken. "
The king of the sea will tell you:
"Would you like to marry in the blue sea
On a sweetheart on a red girl? "
Tell him these words:
"I have no will of my own in the blue sea."
The king of the sea will say again:
"Well, Sadko, get up early in the morning,
Choose for yourself a beautiful girl. "
How will you choose a beautiful girl
So skip the first three hundred girls,
And let the other three hundred girls pass,
And the third, let three hundred girls pass;
Behind there is a beautiful maiden
Beautiful maiden Chernavushka,
Take that Chernava to marry yourself ...
You will, Sadko, in Novye Grad.
And on my countless gold treasury
Build a cathedral church for Mikole Mozhaisky.

Sadko pulled out the strings in the gussels,
The hairpins in the vermilion were broken.
The king of the sea says to him:
- Oh, you, Sadko Novgorodsky!
Why don’t you play the spring goose?
- My strings in the dusters pulled out,
And the little pins in the spring-leaved ones have fallen out
And there were no spare strings,
And the pins were not useful.

The king says these are the words:
- Would you like to get married in the blue sea
On a darling on a red girl? -
Sadko from Novgorod says to him:
- I have no will of my own in the blue sea.
Again the king of the sea says:
- Well, Sadko, get up early in the morning,
Choose yourself a beautiful maiden.
Sadko got up early in the morning,
He will look: there are three hundred red girls.
He missed the first three hundred girls,
And I missed three hundred other girls,
And he missed the third three hundred girls;
Behind there was a beautiful maiden
Beautiful maiden Chernavushka,
He took the same Chernava to marry himself.

How was their dining feast honored?
How Sadko went to bed on the first night,
How Sadko woke up in Novo-grad,
On the river Chernava on a steep ridge,
As he looks, they run
His blackened ships across the Volkhov
The wife of Sadok commemorates her with a retinue in the blue sea:
- Do not be Sadok from the blue sea! -
And the squad remembers one Sadok:

And Sadko is standing on a steep ridge,
He meets his squad from Volkhov
Then his squad cheated:
- Sadko remained in the blue sea!
I found myself ahead of us in Novye Grad,
He meets the squad from Volkhov!
I met Sadko a good squad
And led into the chambers of the white men.
Here his wife rejoiced
She took Sadka by the white hands,
She kissed sugar lips.

Sadko began to unload from blackened ships
Imenice - treasury innumerable to gold.
As unloaded from blackened ships,
He built a cathedral church for Mikole Mozhaisky.

Sadko did not travel to the blue sea anymore,
Sadko began to live in Novo-grad.

"Sadko". Ilya Repin, 1872.

The painting was painted by a master in Paris

Commissioned by the Grand Duke Alexander

The future emperor Alexander III

Sadko

It is believed that in the entire Russian epic there are only two authentic epics that have preserved the ancient form of the narrative.

One of them, and the most famous is epic about Sadko... Until recently, it was considered an ancient Novgorod epic of about the 10th century.

In this article you will find evidence that this is not a Novgorod epic, written not in the 10th century. You will find out what ancient, archaic times of the ancient northern region gave us these stories about a strange man traveling between worlds.

"This is one of the pearls of folk poetry", - this is how V.G. Belinsky, a Russian writer of the 19th century, responded about the epic. Fans of classical opera are well aware of this epic from the opera by Rimsky-Korsakov, who perfectly understood and felt the fabulous beauty of this magnificent fairy tale, creatively transforming it.

The apotheosis of the Novgorod epic - not at all in Novgorod!

The story about Sadko is composed of three parts.

The first - Sadko, a poor guslar, offended by the fact that they stopped calling him to play at rich feasts, goes to play at Lake Ilmen. This game is overheard by the water king and rewards him for it: he teaches him how to catch golden feathers in Lake Ilmen and how to make a bet with Novgorod merchants that he will catch such a fish. He catches a fish, wins a mortgage - shops with goods - and becomes a wealthy merchant.

The second - having become rich, Sadko again wages a pledge with Novgorod merchants: he undertakes to buy up all Novgorod goods. It succeeds in some ways, but in most cases it fails. In both cases, he has a huge amount of goods.

And, the third, standing alone... With the purchased goods, Sadko goes to sea to trade. The sea king stops his ships and demands him to him. Sadko finds himself in the kingdom of the sea lord, where he amuses him with his playing on the harp. He chooses Chernavushka as his wife, thanks to which he returns home from the magical underwater world.

Please note that the action of the first two Novgorodian units in the place of action differs from the main, third. And, which is characteristic, it is to the king of the sea that Sadko comes to visit, and not to the king of the river and not to the king of the lake. There is no sea near Novgorod, which means that the real action takes place not at all in Novgorod.

It can be assumed that in the epic about Sadko we have the remains of that mosaic structure, which is characteristic of very early epics.

In the Russian epic, as we know, this mosaicism has long been overcome: Russian epics, as a rule, are completely monolithic. But in this case, the structure of the epic is unusual for a Russian singer. The weak internal connection of the parts leads to their disintegration. Perhaps in no Russian epic do we have such a large number of variations and fluctuations. This unambiguously speaks of some other origin of the epic, going back millennia.

Let's remember history

The most ancient period of Russian history is usually called the Kiev period. One should not, however, forget that, as Academician Grekov says, "the Kiev state, or the state of the Rurikovichs, was formed from the merger of two Eastern Slavic states - Kiev and Novgorod proper." Of these, Novgorod must be recognized as the more ancient. Thus, the recognition of the Novgorod epic as one of the most ancient in the Russian epic in itself does not contradict the historical data.

But the epic about Sadko is not only "pre-Kiev", but also "Donovgorod". The main components of this epic are much older than historical Novgorod. Let's remember the historical facts.

Novgorodians in the 11th century, attracted by rumors about the fabulous fur and fish wealth of the "midnight countries", as the north was called in the old days, began to populate the territory of the modern Arkhangelsk region.

Modern genetics divides the Slavs into three groups that are genetically distinct from each other: South Slavs, East and North. These three groups are linked by language, customs, marriages, culture. Nevertheless, Novgorodians belong to the eastern Slavs, the people who lived in the north - respectively, to the northern Slavs. According to the chronicle legends, it is known that the North has long been inhabited by the Chud tribes, "the Chudi Navolotsk, white-eyed" Paganism and idolatry flourished among the “white-eyed chudi”. Christianity came here much later and was much weaker.

The signs of paganism are the perception of the world, in which the Gods, as supreme beings, are at the same time the ancestors and relatives of people.

And now you understand that Novgorod Christians who came to the North in the 11th century have come across amazing myths, fairy tales that tell that people are almost Gods, they are descendants of Gods, they are relatives of Gods. How the soul of Novgorodians, who heard the ancient songs, reminded them of ancient times, when the earth was inhabited by Human Gods and Noble People, must have rang like a harp! How they wanted to become a part of this fabulous life! We know that the Novgorodians went from the mouth of the Pinega River, but did not reach the headwaters in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Vyya and Pinezhka tributaries, where the representatives of the ancient people, displaced by them, gathered. It seems that the winners themselves were subdued by the ancient tales of the departed people. The Novgorod "preface" was simply attributed to the northern story about Sadko.

Where is this epic actually recorded?

Note that these are northern territories, not Novgorod. These materials would be quite enough if the song was well preserved. But this is not the case. A large number of notes are fragmentary and incomplete. This picture is rather unexpected, and we will have to try to find our explanation for this.

You can name only one singer who knew all the episodes of this epic in their full form and gave a coherent and consistent presentation of the entire plot from beginning to end. This is a wonderful Onega singer Sorokin, who takes one of the first places in the Onega tradition for the completeness and brilliance of his songs. His epics were recorded by A.F. Hilferding in 1871. Let me remind you that Onega is part of the Arkhangelsk region.

There is something in this story that never happened in other epics.

The first is God's benevolent attitude towards man

The legend about Sadko in terms of his meeting with the sea king is so archaic that researchers talk about the most ancient origin of this tale. Sadko meets - the only case in the entire Russian epic - the master of the water element, the sea king, the sea God. The sea king is not hostile to the hero, but benevolent - a very archaic trait.

The second is the presence of a ritual for interacting with God

The scene when the Sea God demands a sacrifice is deeply symbolic. The sea is dangerous by those unknown forces that a person does not know how to control and before which he was then completely powerless.

Two disasters lay in wait for the northern navigator of antiquity. One calamity is calm, in which ships can stand still for days and weeks on the high seas. Another calamity is a storm that threatens ships with destruction.

But the calamity that befalls Sadko's ships is of a completely unusual nature: a terrible storm is played out, but the ships do not move, but stand still, as in calmness.

The weather was strong on the blue sea,

Ships on the White Sea have stagnated;

And the wave hits, tears the sails,

Breaks the blackened ships,

And the ships do not leave their place in the White Sea.

It is a miracle, but a miracle, which means that those unknown and mysterious forces, which the navigators of those times were so afraid of, began to interfere in the fate of the sailors. Sadko believes that his old patron, the sea king, to whom he has never paid tribute, is angry with him. Sadko thinks what the sailors of his time thought: the sea should be pacified, sacrifice should be made to it. Sacrifice to the sea, "feeding" the sea is an ancient maritime custom, it is known to all peoples, whose life and well-being depended on the sea. There is no doubt that such sacrifices were actually made in pagan times: the materials cited by R. Lipets in her aforementioned work on Sadko fully confirm this.

The epic is a poetic memory of a once really existing custom. There is no doubt that even human sacrifices were made. As a substitute victim, a straw scarecrow was subsequently thrown into the water, of which the memory was preserved until very recently.

Third - transition to another world

Think for yourself - the hero easily moves to another world, to the Underwater King. The epic about Sadko is the only one in the entire Russian epic, where the hero, leaving home, finds himself in some other world, namely in the underwater world. Sadko falls asleep on the raft and wakes up in the underwater kingdom. We know that this way of getting into the “other world”, in this case, the underwater one, is prehistoric. We also know that in the most ancient epics, the hero is also always the master of another world.

Fourth - the power of the Divine

The figure of the king of the sea is mighty and strong. He makes Sadko play a dance, and he dances to his play. Sometimes sea maidens and mermaids lead their dance to his play. The dance of the sea king is of a special kind. This dance is causing a storm. The sea king makes Sadko play for three whole days. From his dance waves rise, ships perish, people drown.

How Sadko began to play the spring goose,

As the king of the sea began to dance in the white sea,

How the king of the sea danced.

Sadko played for a day, played and others,

Yes, Sadko played and the third,

And all the king of the sea dances in the white sea.

In the blue sea, the water shook

With yellow sand, the water was confused,

Many ships began to crash on the white sea,

A lot of property owners began to visit,

Many righteous people began to drown.

The idea that a storm comes from the dance of the master of the water element, the sea king, dates back to pagan times. This is not possible in the Christian religion.

Fifth - marriage with a creature of the inhuman world

The sea king offers Sadko to choose any beauty - a princess as his wife. But Sadko chooses Chernavushka. He is not seduced by the beauty of sea princesses or mermaids, who sometimes dance to his play. He chooses Chernavushka, and this moment is one of the most beautiful and poetic in the whole epic.

This advice is in line with the inner aspirations of Sadko himself. The entire underwater world with its unearthly beauty and beauties is the temptation of Chernobog, which Sadko does not give in. He does not for a minute forget about the world of people.

Who is Chernavushka and how to understand her image? Her touching human beauty is clearly contrasted with the false beauty of mermaids. But, despite her human appearance, she is not human, she is also a mermaid.

The epic about Sadko is one of the rare and exceptional epics in the Russian epic, in which the tradition of marriage with a creature from another, inhuman world is still preserved.

So what happens?

In the oldest, archaic part of the famous epic - the action takes place on the sea (which was not near Novgorod, but which has been washing the northern part of Russia for thousands of years).

The plot itself is a pagan story, unthinkable for newly minted Christians - the hero enters the Other World and marries the daughter of the Divine.

The action of the first parts is geographically distant from the main plot, which takes place at sea. The epic itself differs sharply in structure and content from the well-known later Russian epics.

Consequently, this old tale has deep northern roots and is based on pagan ideas about the world and the place of man in it. The epic is the work of not Eastern, but Northern Slavs, who have their own ancient and not yet fully cognized history.

Do you know that in northern mythology this story is told in different ways, but recognizable? Among the ancient Germans, this is Siegfried, who caught the treasure of the Nibelungs (Buslaev) in the form of a goldfish; among the Scandinavians, this is the mythical singer and spellcaster Weinemeinen, who plays and sings to the sea god (Miller).

Do you want to know what the northern fairy tales still tell about Sadko?

Northern tale "About the adventures of the eldest son Wang and Mary" starts like this:

Van and Mary, the daughter of the bogatyr Svyatogor (the son of Rod) and Filka (the daughter of the Sun - Ra), had many children, sons and daughters, from whom different peoples later went.

But the eldest son stood out from all. In height, he went to grandfather Svyatogor, and in intelligence, not otherwise than in his father. But she was a mischievous person in games and amusements, certainly in his mother's relatives. These relatives were special: whatever the uncle, then the god, and whatever the aunt, the goddess.

On long winter evenings, when only the mother and children remained at home, and the father, as usual, with his team went to sea to hunt for seals and walruses, the children gathered in a circle around their mother, and closer to the stove, and the mother's stories began about how she lived in the heavenly mansion with her father, who supported the heavenly vault with his shoulders, as she stayed with the sisters at Dazhdbog, and how they looked after each other with Van, and how Van wooed her and won the competition that was appointed.

This story was told by the mother many times, but the children again and again demanded repetition and new details. The elder liked the stories about uncle Veles more, about his travels, about his victories, where Veles won not only by force, but also by his mind.

-I will be like Uncle Veles, - he declared to his mother, to which the mother, hugging her first child, whispered:

- Of course you will, only grow!

- And I'm growing so! - he answered, - and did not deceive.

By the age of 7 he knew the letter, even to the Star Book of Kolyada that his mother had kept, he got there, but his mother forbade him to read it for the time being, until he finally entered his mind.

This is the beginning of a story that happened a long time ago, when Human Gods and Noble People lived hand in hand.

Epic "Sadko" analysis of the work - theme, idea, characteristics

Epic "Sadko" analysis

Genre: epic

The theme of the epic "Sadko": a story about the life and adventures of the Novgorod guslar Sadko, who became rich and became a merchant.

The idea of \u200b\u200bthe epic "Sadko": celebrating skill and perseverance in achieving a goal.

the main idea: any master of his craft and you will achieve a lot.

The main characters of the epic "Sadko" - Sadko, merchants, the sea king, Chernavushka, Nikolai Mozhaisky

The composition of the epic "Sadko"

• Exposition: the glorious guslar Sadko lived in Novgorod.
• Tie: they stopped calling him to the so-called feasts.
• Development of events: the guslar went to the shore of Lake Ilmen, for three days he gloriously played the psaltery, on the advice of the tsar of the sea, makes a bet in an establishment with the merchants of Novgorod that fish with golden fins is found in Lake Ilmen, won the Sadko establishment, and became a Novgorod merchant.
• Climax: bets on a pawn in an institution that will redeem all the goods of Novgorod.
• Interchange: for three days he bought goods, and they were imported again, so he realized that Novgorod was richer than him, he admitted his defeat.

• Tie: equips Sadko ships on long voyages.
• Development of events: he trades well in the Golden Horde, on the way back the tsar asks for a ransom, not gold, silver, pearls, he is waiting for Sadko himself.
• Climax: Sadko with a harp goes to the ocean of the seas to the king of the sea.
• Interchange: Gloriously plays the harp to the king of the sea, and on the advice of Nikolai Mozhaisky breaks the harp, marries Chernavushka, happily returns to Novgorod, builds cathedral churches, turns to God.

Fabulous elements of the epic "Sadko"

Fairy tale opening: "And once ... there was Sadko ..."
Magic numbers: I waited for an invitation for three days, went to the lake three times, three fish in three nets, received six benches from six merchants, bought Novgorod goods for three days, lost thirty thousand, built thirty ships, threw three barrels of good into the sea, three times the lot metal, three groups of three hundred girls passed,

The epic "Sadko" shows the structure of ancient life. Tells about ancient cities, about the way of life of people of that time, about their customs. People's guslar - Sadko, won a dispute with merchants. By playing the harp, he conquered the sea king, but did not give in to the temptation to stay in the underwater kingdom. This is very symbolic.

Sadko is a guslar, a singer, a merchant .. the most different and best features of the national character are embodied in him - nobility, generosity, breadth of soul. Bravely, he embarks on a journey to see distant lands. But his heart belongs to his homeland - Novgorod.