The Ballad Cycle about Unhappy Betrothed: an Archetypal Interpretation

Abstract

In this article, we intend to analyze the ballad cycle Two lovers, with a wide sphere of circulation in the Bessarabian area, but at the same time, known in folklore of several Balkan peoples, especially in the south-eastern European area. On this occasion, nev types of topics are highlighted, related to the sphere of family life, where the retionships between parents and children wili be externaliyed to deepen various aspects of life in the pa triarchal community, as well as revealing relationships between lovers. The epic narrative places in the center of attention the motif of the embraced trees, which comes from an old animistic belief and is meant to express a culmination of the erotic feeling, revealed depending on the creative intuition of the anonymous genius.