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Read Rusalka Dnistrovaia (1837) in Ukrainian. Level C2: folk songs, Romantic poems and old manuscripts in the almanac’s own spelling, with word translation.
Русалка Дністровая (Маркіян Шашкевич, Іван Вагилевич, Яків Головацький)
Galician folk songs (dumy, carols, spring and wedding songs), wedding rites (ладканя, коровай, перемѣтка), the 1837 phonetic spelling (поѣхаў, свѣт, єго, ся written apart), Galician dialect forms (дожџик, наряџают), Church Slavonic and 15th-century chancery language, Romantic poetry of the Ukrainian revival
This article contains the full text of Rusalka Dnistrovaia (“The Mermaid of the Dniester”, Buda, 1837), the almanac of the Ruthenian Triad (Markiian Shashkevych, Ivan Vahylevych and Yakiv Holovatsky) and the first book in vernacular Ukrainian in Galicia: folk dumy, carols and wedding songs, the authors’ poems and tales, translations from Serbian and Czech, and old documents. Level C2 suits readers who want to read Ukrainian before the modern standard, in the 1837 spelling with ѣ and ў. You will learn Galician folk vocabulary, wedding and seasonal rites, and the older forms of the language.
