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Wernyhora; a painting by Jan Matejko
Wernyhora; a painting by Jacek Malczewski

Wernyhora is a legendary 18th century Cossack bard (bandurist) who prophetized [pl] the fall of Poland and its subsequent rebirth and flourishing, "from Black to White sea".

He has been a subject of several folklore tales and poems (particularly in the 19th century romanticism in Poland). Most notably he has been a character in works of Seweryn Goszczyński (Vernyhora), Michał Czajkowski (Wernyhora wieszcz ukraiński: powieść historyczna z roku 1768 (1838)), Juliusz Słowacki (Salomea's Silver Dream [pl]) and Stanislaw Wyspiański (The Wedding), as well as a subject of a paintings by Jan Matejko and Jacek Malczewski.

References

  • Geoffrey A. Hosking, George Schöpflin, Myths and nationhood, Taylor & Francis, 1997, ISBN 0-415-91973-8, Google Print, p.148


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