Zhalnik is the name of the population of the Novgorod region of the ancient pagan burial grounds of the mound type. In another meaning - an old cemetery, churchyard, scoop . In Church Slavonic, the word grave conveyed the Greek μνημεϊον “grave” (the old Slavic pity is the same).
As follows from Stoglava ( 1551 ), on the reapers on Trinity Saturday, there were commemoration of the deceased, and there were also festivities.
See also
- Jale (cemetery)
- Mound
- Zhalniki of the Novgorod province (Hud. N.K. Roerich)
Literature
- Belyaev L.A. Zhalnik // Orthodox Encyclopedia .
- Zhalnik // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Milkov V.V. Studying of the zhalniks of the Novgorod land // Archaeological discoveries of 1981. - M .: Nauka, 1983 .-- S. 26-27.
- Pronin G. N. Ethnicity belonged to the veins (the experience of retrospective analysis) // Archaeological sites of the European part of the RSFSR. Funeral monuments. - M., 1988.
- Pronin G.N. Hills, mounds, zhalniks (on the issue of continuity) // Brief Communications of the Institute of Archeology. - M .: Nauka, 1981. - T. 166. - S. 11-16.
- Prusakova Z. V. Ground burials of the parchment type of the XI-XV centuries in the North-West of the USSR // Problems of a comprehensive study of the North-West of the RSFSR. Funeral monuments. - M., 1988.
- Sedov V.V. Zhalniki // Russian Archeology. - 2000. No. 1. - S. 7-22.
- Shtyrkov S.A. Traditions about a foreign invasion: peasant narrative and landscape mythology (based on materials from the North-Eastern Novgorod Region). St. Petersburg: Science, 2012.