Mikula Selyaninovich
Slavic · mortal · bylina medieval · Recorded classification
The most ideologically loaded figure in the Russian epic — the peasant who is stronger than every armed hero in the cycle, and stronger because he works the ground rather than in spite of it — and the registry held the armed heroes and not him. His usual companion in the byliny is Volga Svyatoslavich, who is not in this batch: the search that returned Mikula did not return a usable treatment of Volga, and he is carried as a BLOCKED row rather than written from memory.
Domains
- agriculture ploughing
- prodigious strength
Relations
- outmatched: SvyatogorThe other half of the same encounter, written from this side because a reader coming to either record should find the other.Reference treatment of Svyatogor's failure to lift the bag of earthly weight that Mikula carries. (secondary)
Sources
- Mikula Selyaninovich is the ploughman-bogatyr of the Novgorodian byliny, stronger than the warrior heroes because the earth favours him, and the only one who can lift the bag containing the weight of the whole earth.: Reference treatments of Mikula Selyaninovich and of the bag of earthly weight. (secondary)