Simono Daukanto "Dainės žemaičių"

LTPetrapilyje 1846 metais S. Daukantas išsispausdino knygelę "Dajnes Žiamajtiu" (toliau DDŽ). Kokia jos vieta mūsų liaudies dainų rinkimo ir skelbimo istorijoje? Galime skirti ištakas, platėjančią ir gilėjančią vagą, išsiliejančią galiausiai į plačiąsias marias [p. 142].

ENSimonas Daukantas continued the collection and publication of national songs started by Pilypas Ruigys in the 18th century. In 1846, after having published “Songs of Samogitians”, Daukantas had an idea to continue this work further. There are more manuscript collections of national songs gathered by his colleagues. Though in most of his works Daukantas tried to avoid loan-words or used to correct them, in songs he would often leave the loan-words due to their artistic features and mark them in the footnote. He was the first to publish songs of literary origin, making a few corrections in traditional songs and more accurately correcting songs of literary origin. Sometimes Daukantas used also to edit the structure of the songs and recreate one variant from several sources.