Muminki, wyprawa i pielgrzymka — elementy średniowiecznego romansu rycerskiego i staroangielskiej poezji elegijnej jako motywy w książce "Tatuś Muminka i morze"

Karolina Pasiut

doi:10.55225/hcs.554

Authors

Karolina Pasiut Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1490-2860

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55225/hcs.554

Keywords:

Moominpappa at sea, chivalric romances, Old-English poetry, lighthouse, deserted island, family

Abstract

Whilst the Moomin family sails away the a deserted island, Tove Jansson transforms their sea voyage into a metaphorical journey from the safe space of Moominvalley into the mercy of the sea, transcending the bodily experience of moving away into metaphysical changes in them. The motives of the transitional processes resemble themes and settings of a medieval chivalric romance and Old English elegiac poetry. The paper aims to present and analyze how Moominpappa, Moominmamma and Moomintroll, as depicted in the novel Moominpappa at Sea, 1965, assume the roles characteristic of the literary tradition of the medieval and Anglo-Saxon ancient narratives so that the perspective on the text may go beyond its usual scope and facilitate new reading. Thus, the readers follows questing knights, sometimes knights-errant, pious pilgrims and ancient heroic warriors transferred into the twenty-century Finnish novel where the characters strive to better themselves.

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