Folk Hero Peter Klepec in the Melting Pot of Different Traditions

Abstract

V članku je raziskano izročilo o Petru Klepcu, kakor ga lahko zaznamo iz dojemanja ljudi na podlagi analize besedil in konteksta pripovedi o tem tradicijskem junaku v okolju, v katerem se je do danes ohranilo, tj. v dolini Čabranke in zgornje Kolpe na obeh straneh državne meje med Slovenijo in Hrvaško. Prav obmejna lega, ki prvotno ni predstavljala ovire, je z osamosvojitvijo obeh republik povzročila določene spremembe v interpretaciji in percepciji izročila, na katero so vplivale tudi vsebine, ki so se nanašale na druge folklorne junake.

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The paper focuses on the popular tradition about Peter Klepec as it is detected in the perceptions of people on the basis of textual analysis and the context of the narratives about this traditional hero where they have been preserved to this day: the Čabranka and Upper Kolpa Valley situated on both sides of the state border between Slovenia and Croatia upon their independence. It is this border location, originally not an obstacle, that has led to certain changes to the interpretation and perception of this narrative tradition, which was also influenced by the oral tradition about other folk heroes.