{"id":20804,"date":"2022-10-11T09:59:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T07:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/llegendarium.cat.mialias.net\/que-es-llegendarium\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T18:01:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T16:01:34","slug":"what-is-llegendarium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/llegendarium.com\/en\/what-is-llegendarium\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Llegendarium"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What is Llegendarium<\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t[vc_empty_space woodmart_hide_large=”0″ woodmart_hide_medium=”0″ woodmart_hide_small=”0″]\t\t
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Llegend\u00e0rium is a research and outreach project devoted to folklore, legends, folktales, beliefs and traditions rooted in oral and vernacular culture. Founded in Catalonia, with a particular focus on the cultural heritage of Catalan-speaking territories, the project also explores traditions from across Europe and around the world, tracing the connections, parallels and differences that both unite and distinguish them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Llegend\u00e0rium is particularly interested in the stories and beliefs that have travelled from generation to generation: fireside tales, legends rooted in particular places, supernatural beings, customs, superstitions, rituals, festivals and motifs that reappear in different forms across widely separated cultures and historical periods. Its aim is not merely to collect them, but to ask where they come from, how they have changed and what they can tell us about the communities that passed them on.<\/p>\n

Llegend\u00e0rium\u2019s research seeks to trace each tradition as far back as the surviving sources allow and to interpret it within its historical, social and cultural context. What are the earliest versions known to us? How has a story changed over time? To which tale type does it belong? Which folklore motifs shape it? What does it share with other narratives, and what makes it distinctive? Is it still being passed on, or has it ceased to form part of a living tradition? What might it have meant to those who told it in the past? And what does it mean to us today?<\/p>\n

The answers are rarely simple or definitive. Folklore is ever-changing, contradictory and profoundly human, and Llegend\u00e0rium seeks to embrace this complexity rather than reduce it to simple interpretations. Its articles therefore draw on primary and secondary sources and specialist scholarship, compare traditions from different regions and cultures, and explore different possibilities of interpretation whenever the evidence allows.<\/p>\n

Llegend\u00e0rium is intended for curious and discerning readers willing to venture beyond the best-known versions and familiar assumptions\u2014for readers eager to discover unexpected aspects of tradition and follow paths that are not always comfortable or reassuring. Above all, it is for those who wish to make the stories inherited from oral culture\u2014whether ancient or contemporary\u2014their own: to understand them for what they are, experience them and, in turn, pass them on.<\/p>\n

This work does not end on the screen. The articles published on the website extend into books and other publications<\/strong>, where particular subjects can be explored at greater length and in greater depth, as well as into gatherings, talks, collaborations and other outreach initiatives. Llegend\u00e0rium is therefore a project in constant motion, bringing research and transmission together while combining scholarly rigour with the pleasure of telling a good story once again.<\/p>\n

By rediscovering and reaffirming the importance of the popular imagination, Llegend\u00e0rium is founded on the conviction that oral, local and collective storytelling remains essential in an increasingly barren, dehumanised and individualistic world. This is its heart: to bring the waters of imagination back to one corner of this confused and dying wasteland, and to nurture the communal spirit that begins to grow again whenever someone tries to bury it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He mantenido intacto el tono po\u00e9tico y combativo del cierre. La principal mejora acad\u00e9mica es \u201cas far back as the surviving sources allow\u201d<\/strong>, porque evita sugerir que siempre sea posible alcanzar el origen verdadero de una tradici\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t[\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/5″ woodmart_sticky_column_offset=”150″ woodmart_css_id=”65c3ca28c91da” parallax_scroll=”no” woodmart_sticky_column=”true” wd_collapsible_content_switcher=”no” wd_column_role_offcanvas_desktop=”no” wd_column_role_offcanvas_tablet=”no” wd_column_role_offcanvas_mobile=”no” wd_column_role_content_desktop=”no” wd_column_role_content_tablet=”no” wd_column_role_content_mobile=”no” mobile_bg_img_hidden=”no” tablet_bg_img_hidden=”no” woodmart_parallax=”0″ woodmart_box_shadow=”no” responsive_spacing=”eyJwYXJhbV90eXBlIjoid29vZG1hcnRfcmVzcG9uc2l2ZV9zcGFjaW5nIiwic2VsZWN0b3JfaWQiOiI2NWMzY2EyOGM5MWRhIiwic2hvcnRjb2RlIjoidmNfY29sdW1uIiwiZGF0YSI6eyJ0YWJsZXQiOnt9LCJtb2JpbGUiOnt9fX0=” mobile_reset_margin=”no” tablet_reset_margin=”no” wd_z_index=”no”]\t\t

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