Abstract
The article aims to reveal the characteristic traits of the language in historical novels by Arturs Heniņš and characterise the role and means of archaization of the texts. Four novels of the sandhills cycle, historical novels about Riga of the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century („Es, smilšu kalnu jātnieks” (2002), „Smilšu kalnu virpuļos” (2003), „Pastardiena smilšu kalnos” (2005) un „Smilšu pulkstenī birst cits laiks” (2012)) and the novel „Teiksma par Kursas Dižmežu” (2006), a historical fantasy about ancient Kursa. Desriptive method has been used. It has been concluded that all novels are written in a comparatively intensively archaized language, mostly on the level of vocabulary in order to characterise the novels’ setting. However, the language of the sand hills cycle is significantly disparate from the language of „Teiksma par Kursas Dižmežu” because the language in the sandhill cycle is created by imitating the language of the press and fiction, but in the historical fantasy, the language imitates that of the Latvian folklore.
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