Prince Vladimir
This record is the epic Vladimir and says so. The byliny stand at several centuries' remove from Vladimir Svyatoslavich, who ruled Kiev from about 980 to 1015 and converted the Rus, and the epic prince who sits at table while his bogatyrs do the work is a composite: the epic material also draws on Vladimir Monomakh, and the figure behaves in ways the historical ruler is not recorded to have behaved. The record is filed at kievan-rus-historical because that is where the cycle places him and no earlier; it does not assert an identity with the historical prince, and no dates are given, because giving them would make exactly that assertion. What he is here is the centre the Kiev cycle organises itself around, which is the function the registry was missing entirely.
Domains
- kingship
Epithets
- Красное Солнышко The Fair Sun; the fixed epithet by which the byliny name him, and the reason the epic prince is recognisable as a distinct figure from the ruler.Reference treatment of the epic epithet Krasnoye Solnyshko attached to Vladimir in the byliny. (secondary)
Relations
- overlord of: Ilya MurometsNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing record.Reference treatment: Ilya arrives at Vladimir's court presenting Nightingale the Robber as a prisoner and earning the prince's admiration. (secondary)
- overlord of: Dobrynya NikitichSame kind, same reason.Reference treatment of the Kievan cycle of byliny, in which the bogatyrs including Dobrynya Nikitich serve at the court of Prince Vladimir. (secondary)
- overlord of: Alyosha PopovichSame kind, same reason. With these three edges the registry's bogatyr triad stops floating free of the cycle it belongs to.Reference treatment of the Kievan cycle of byliny, in which the bogatyrs including Alyosha Popovich serve at the court of Prince Vladimir. (secondary)
- captor of: Nightingale the RobberIn-batch reciprocal of the robber's captive-of edge.Reference treatment: Nightingale the Robber is brought as a prisoner to Vladimir, who asks to hear him whistle. (secondary)
Sources
- Prince Vladimir, called the Fair Sun, is the ruler of Kiev at whose court the Kievan cycle of byliny is set and to whom the bogatyrs bring their captives.: Reference treatments of the Kievan bylina cycle and of Vladimir's court in 'The First Journey of Ilya Muromets'. (secondary)