Trends and traditions

Reports from the XIIth Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research, Göttingen 1998 A popular music programme which can be heard regularly on the Swedish radio has the title Trends and Traditions. This title occurred to me while I was studying the...

The Kalevala in translation

Literary scholars and folklorists may define epics differently, but both are interested in national epics, folklorists because national epics are usually derived from folk epics. Epic poetry contains both features which are similar to those found in oral tradition of...

Back to basics

The year 1999 will be the 150th Anniversary of the New Kalevala. Finnish Folkloristics would certainly look very different, were it to exist even, had there not been the quest for a long epic in the hearts of a handful of Romantic students studying at the University...

Interpretation at a distance (Review)

Thomas A. DuBois, Finnish Folk Poetry and the Kalevala. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995. 328 pp. Thomas A. DuBois’ “Finnish Folk Poetry and the Kalevala” is one of the rare monographs written by a non-native Finnish-speaker on...

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