165 KB20 KB199820252014Łuczyński, Michałštevilka:17str. 83-89ISSN:1408-6271COBISSID:37936941URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-TNFAN9VHenUniversita degli Studi di Pisa, Dipartimento di Linguistica, gia Istituto di Lingua e LetteraturaZnanstvenoraziskovalni center Slovenske akademije znanosti in umetnosti, Inštitut za slovensko narodopisjeStudia mythologica SlavicakultimitologijamythologypaganismpoganstvoSlavic mythologySlavsSlovaniWilliam of Malmesbury, ca. 1090-ca. 1143William of Malmesbury's "Fortune" (Gesta Rerum Anglorum II 12)| an attempt at a new interpretation|The article constitutes an attempt to interpret one of the newly discovered source texts concerning mediaeval Slavdom, which is William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of English Kings. The author analyzes a passage devoted to the cult of "Fortune" among the pagan Lutici tribes which is described in a fragment of the chapter 'De Henrico Imperatore' devoted to the allies of the empire. The fragment in question concerns the Veleti - the pagan allies of emperor Henry III in the years 1045-1055. On the basis of an analysis of the description of prophesies from the horn of the statue of Fortune, the author tries to justify a hypothesis that the presently missing German source of this fragment (dating back to the middle of the 11th c.) was based on a 15th book 'Diversarum hereseon liber' by Filastrius of Brixen, an early mediaeval author of the 4th /5th century, whereas the cult described by William of Malmesbury concerned a female goddess with uranic-pluvial connotations (whose proper name had been substituted in the Roman interpretation by "Fortune") in one of the cities of the northern VeletiTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaZRC SAZU