OXYMORAL

On 21-28 June 2025, Oxymoral Principal Investigator, Prof. Diweg-Pukanec, made a research visit to the libraries in Croatia in order to explore the Croatian language material of the project. Moreover, in one of the maps stored in Ljubljana, Slovenia, he managed to discover on a map from the 16th century a name of Slovakia that has not been published in the scholarly literature so far – „Another Moravia“, which may be a reminiscence of the territorial extent of Great Moravia as the first state where Old Church Slavic was spread. In Lovran, Croatia, he conducted field research in the Romanesque parish church of St. George the Martyr, which houses a world unique collection of 48 medieval Glagolitic inscriptions on preserved frescos. A quarter of the inscriptions have been identified as „moral“ (e.g., in picture 2 below is the inscription „ŽENU KRĚPKU…“, where Old Chruch Slavic krěp- ‚strong, mighty‘ – cf. Slovak krepý ‚stupid‘ – has the unique meaning of ‚good‘). In addition, the parish priest of the church provided the researcher with literature on the history of the medieval church and its inscriptions with photographic material.

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