Цар Самуил в Разметаница: Средният Запад срещу Югозапада в културното инженерство на българската държава
Tzar Samuel in Razmetanitza District: Middle East vs. South East in Cultural Engineering of the Bulgarian nation

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims at studying a local version of the narrative about tzar Samuel,who killed his Brother Aaron – an event, dating from the last quarter of X c.More than a century later Gregorius Antiochus evidenced, that Bulgarian people were still singing about „that reputable Samuel, who is still in their mouths“.The text is a result of a field research, conducted in 2014, being tied to jubilee,dedicated to 1000 years since the death of that Bulgarian ruler.From source data collected it became evident, that it is impossible to claim there are long-lasting tradition of remembering and reproducing the legend on the level of folklore memory. It is obvious that local traditional narratives are not as ancient as XIX c. Most of them were initially codified at the end of XIX or at the beginning of XX c. Earlier records, as far as they exist, proved the mas typical folklore texts with no personal data included. And no options to tie them to a particular episode of the past was implied.

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