BALLADA BY D.N. TSERTELEVA "EPISCOPE OLAF": TRADITION AND INNOVATION
The article examines the folk legend event structure created in the territory of Jutland and dedicated to the events of the 13th century. Folk legend and the H. C. Andersen's work «The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors» served as the basis for D.N. Tsertelev's poetic ballad «Bishop Olaf,» which, as the analysis of the text shows, retains the main story composition features of the text, but changes the characteristics of the characters, updates the conflict, strengthens its social focus.