Eneida: read in Ukrainian (C2)
Read Kotliarevsky’s complete Eneida (1798-1842) in the original Ukrainian. Level C2: Virgil’s Aeneas as a Cossack, in 18th-century verse, with word translation.
Енеїда (Іван Котляревський)
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What you'll learn
Early 19th-century literary Ukrainian, old forms such as од for від, хоть for хоч, но for але, к for до and єсть for є, long adjective endings (старая, золотеє), the 1922 spelling without apostrophes (пяний), food, drink and dress vocabulary (варенуха, сивуха, лемішка, жупан, кунтуш), Cossack and officialdom terms, mock Latin and Church Slavonic, ten-line iambic stanzas and burlesque comparisons
This article contains the full text of Ivan Kotliarevsky’s burlesque poem Eneida (Енеїда), all six parts, printed 1798-1842 and taken from the 1922 Berlin edition: Virgil’s Aeneas becomes a Cossack lad who sails from burned Troy through Carthage, Sicily and hell to Latium, where a war breaks out. Level C2 suits readers ready to read a historical stage of Ukrainian, as Shakespeare is for English. You will learn the old forms that came before the modern standard, 18th-century words for food, drink, dress and offices, and the burlesque humour that launched modern Ukrainian literature.
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