Podziemny świat soli zawarty w leksyce legend górników wielickich

Abstract

The article deals with the vocabulary used by the occupational group of the miners from Wieliczka. The world represented in the legends of the miners includes two spheres: real and fantastic. The real sphere consist of vocabulary that describes salt and its forms, the names of the mines and their elements, the names of places, tools, persons associated with salt mining, craftsmen and the workers employed in the mine as well as other names connected with the salt mine. The fantastic sphere includes the heroes of the legends of the miners from Wieliczka. The majority of the described names are formally diversified: in the analysed texts there are synthetic heroes and analytical forms that constitute the terminological concentrations such as: salt miner, white miner.