The Lamentations of Mary and what could be behind it
Remembering the lectures of Dezső Pais
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https://doi.org/10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2024.1.17Keywords:
Lamentations of Mary, archaic folk prayers, Dezső Pais, János Horváth, Zsuzsanna ErdélyiAbstract
The presentation focuses on the question of what role the studying of the Lamentations of Mary had on the work of Dezső Pais. To answer this question, one can start with the lectures that Professor Pais dedicated to the analysis of the first Hungarian poem. The author of the present paper attended these lectures for six semesters from 1968. Studying the Lamentations of Mary had been a constant theme in the teaching career of Dezső Pais, and his publications on the same topic have also been inspired by it. The presentation gives an insight into the spirit of these lectures as well: their crucial components were the freedom of thinking, the respect of facts, and the subtle revision of possibilities. Another factor is to demonstrate the connection between the interpretation of the Lamentations of Mary done by János Horváth (1923) and Dezső Pais (1937). This connection has its background in friendly conversations between the two scholars. A different topic is the one of archaic folk prayers, which were first discovered by Zsuzsanna Erdélyi in 1968. Dezső Pais recognized that certain components of these prayers are directly related to the elements of the Lamentations of Mary. The preservation of these is a result of oral tradition.
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