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EspañolBOYAN (BARD)
:''For the Slavic name, see Bojan (name).'' 
'Boyan' or 'Bayan' is the name of a bard who was active at the court of Yaroslav the Wise. He is apostrophized as Veles's grandson in the opening lines of ''The Lay of Igor's Campaign'' (probably a reference to Veles as the patron of musicians). Historians have been unable to determine whether Boyan was his proper name (as Nikolai Karamzin and Fyodor Buslayev postulated) or all skalds of Rus were called ''boyans'' (Alexander Vostokov). A bayan (accordion) was named after Boyan upon its invention in 1907.
Although ''The Lay'' is the only authentic source mentioning Boyan, his name became exceedingly popular with later generations. He is mentioned in the ''Zadonshchina'' and Pushkin's ''Ruslan and Lyudmila''. The folklorist Alexander Afanasyev considered Boyan a precursor of Ukrainian kobzars. Soviet scholars tended to associate him with the House of Chernigov, assuming that he started his career at the court of Mstislav of Tmutarakan. Boris Rybakov supported this theory and linked his name to a graffito on the wall of Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev which mentions a purchase of "Bayan's land" by "Vsevolod's wife".
★ In Russian internet slang, the word "boyan" means an old, well known joke or story, so old that it could be made up by Boyan himself.
★ ''The Encyclopaedia of The Lay of Igor's Campaign'', in five volumes. St. Petersburg, 1995. Volume 1, pages 147-153.
Statue of Boyan playing a gusli, in Trubchevsk.
'Boyan' or 'Bayan' is the name of a bard who was active at the court of Yaroslav the Wise. He is apostrophized as Veles's grandson in the opening lines of ''The Lay of Igor's Campaign'' (probably a reference to Veles as the patron of musicians). Historians have been unable to determine whether Boyan was his proper name (as Nikolai Karamzin and Fyodor Buslayev postulated) or all skalds of Rus were called ''boyans'' (Alexander Vostokov). A bayan (accordion) was named after Boyan upon its invention in 1907.
Although ''The Lay'' is the only authentic source mentioning Boyan, his name became exceedingly popular with later generations. He is mentioned in the ''Zadonshchina'' and Pushkin's ''Ruslan and Lyudmila''. The folklorist Alexander Afanasyev considered Boyan a precursor of Ukrainian kobzars. Soviet scholars tended to associate him with the House of Chernigov, assuming that he started his career at the court of Mstislav of Tmutarakan. Boris Rybakov supported this theory and linked his name to a graffito on the wall of Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev which mentions a purchase of "Bayan's land" by "Vsevolod's wife".
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Trivia
★ In Russian internet slang, the word "boyan" means an old, well known joke or story, so old that it could be made up by Boyan himself.
References
★ ''The Encyclopaedia of The Lay of Igor's Campaign'', in five volumes. St. Petersburg, 1995. Volume 1, pages 147-153.
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