ISSUES REGARDING THE INTERREL ATIONSHIP OF OLD RUSSIAN LITERATURE AND FOLKLORE IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF IGOR PETROVICH EREMIN

The article is devoted to the folklore interests of the famous Russian medievalist Igor Petrovich Eremin. Special attention is paid to the theory of the forms of chronicle narration and to the chronicle tale as a specific form that is genetically linked to folklore. The article is based on materials in the archive of I. P. Eremin in the National Library of Russia. I. P. Eremin raised several issues concerning the interrelationship of Old Russian literature and folklore in his speech as an official opponent at the defense of Boris Nikolayevich Putilov’s doctoral dissertation in 1961. (Eremin’s speech is published in the appendix to the article). The article provides a commentary on some provisions of this text and examines the problem of the interrelationship between literature and folklore based on material from the chronicle tales about Oleg’s death and about the Belgorod kissel. Hymnographic and hagiographic materials are used to resolve the question about the definition of the slava (glory) genre.