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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">AB</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Archaeologia Baltica</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1392-5520</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1392-5520</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>KU</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">11_364-373_SLIUZINSKAS</article-id>
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          <subject>Article</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>The Image of the Horse in Poetic Texts of Lithuanian Folk Songs</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Sliužinskas</surname>
            <given-names>Rimantas</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:risli@delfi.lt">risli@delfi.lt</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_AB_aff_000"/>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">∗</xref>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_AB_aff_000">Klaipeda University</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="cor1"><label>∗</label>Corresponding author.</corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <volume>11</volume>
      <fpage>364</fpage>
      <lpage>373</lpage>
      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <day>30</day>
        <month>08</month>
        <year>2009</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>30</day>
        <month>08</month>
        <year>2009</year>
      </pub-date>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>14</day>
          <month>02</month>
          <year>2009</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="rev-recd">
          <day>28</day>
          <month>03</month>
          <year>2009</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>12</day>
          <month>06</month>
          <year>2009</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2009</copyright-year>
        <copyright-holder>Klaipėda University</copyright-holder>
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      <abstract>
        <p>The article is devoted to examine the importance of horse image in the poetic texts of various genre Lithuanian folk songs from different local ethnic regions. We find different meanings of the biological horse here, such as riding-horse, working horse, mare and jade here as the representatives in the special social context here. The general conclusion is made about horse as very important symbolic object with wide and deep its meanings in the poetic texts of Lithuanian folk songs.</p>
      </abstract>
      <kwd-group>
        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>horse</kwd>
        <kwd>image</kwd>
        <kwd>Lithuanian folk songs</kwd>
        <kwd>poetic texts</kwd>
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