FFSS 1993 – preliminary programme

TRADITION AND RENEVAL IN THE FOLKLORE PROCESS August 2 – 14, 1993 Turku University / Turku Christian Institute, Finland MONDAY, August 2nd ARRIVAL at the Turku Christian Institute, 10.00- Registration (Course office near the entrance of the White Building)....

Elias Lönnrot and the birth of a nation

A seminar commemorating the bicentennial of Elias Lönnrot’s birth, April 9, 2002 University of Helsinki by Maria Vasenkari, Editorial Secretary at the Kalevala Institute, University of Turku. Elias Lönnrot, the compiler of the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, and...

How oral epics became books

Textualization of Oral Epics. Edited by Lauri Honko. (Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs, 128.) Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2000. viii + 392 pp. Hard (ISBN 3-11-016928-2), 128 € www.deGruyter.com One of the more reflexive topics in folklore...

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