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FFC 330

Petja Kauppi — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:38:58 +0000

This book presents the first edition and translation of Ólafur Sveinsson's treatise on elves that makes its text accessible in the way how it was laid out by Ólafur himself. The text is accompanied by an analysis of its social, literary, and economic context that shows the rich contributions which Ólafur’s unique testimony can make to our understanding of the workings of pre-industrial folk belief in a sparsely settled North Atlantic landscape.

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FFC 328

Petja Kauppi — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:24:14 +0000

Researchers of vernacular traditions or folklore have a special entrance point into studying violence, as many forms of violence are based on traditions and are justified with a reference to tradition. The challenging point in understanding violence is that it is not always clear what counts as violence.

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FFC 284–286 (2024 edition)

Petja Kauppi — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 11:52:51 +0000

Hans-Jörg Uther's "The Types of International Folktales" presents an essential index of the Aarne-Thompson-Uther tale-type system, or ATU, which is one of the most widely recognized and enduring infrastructures developed in folklore research.

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FFC 327

Petja Kauppi — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 09:01:36 +0000

Nijolė Laurinkienė's "The God Perkūnas of the Ancient Lithuanians" is the most thorough and extensive work on the Lithuanian thunder god to date. This book’s nineteen chapters follow the god’s Indo-European origins through the evidence in histories, place names, and diverse forms of folklore, as well as how these relate to archaeological evidence and aspects of material culture.

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FFC 296 & 297, 2nd Printing

Petja Kauppi — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 14:39:26 +0000

Clive Tolley Shamanism in Norse Myth and Magic, Vol I The Kalevala Society Folklore Fellows’ Communications 296 First published 2009, reprinted with minor corrections and with additions 2023 Helsinki 2023 613 pages ISBN 978-952-9534-06-7 Available at the Tiedekirja bookstore, 58 € (The set of vols I & II, 70 €) Medieval Norse written sources, ranging […]

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FFC 326

Petja Kauppi — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 11:45:16 +0000

Francisco Vaz de Silva sets out to reveal the symbolic framework of wondertales as a genre. The study underlines the stability of symbolic patterns in tales across space and time, as well as the evolution of the texts in tune with their contexts.

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FFC 325

Petja Kauppi — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 15:12:10 +0000

Diarmuid Ó Giolláin argues that influences from and the consequences of the expansion of powerful states beyond the bounds of Europe informed folkloristics as much as did conditions within.

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FFC 324

Folklore Fellows — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 12:16:48 +0000

Narrated Communities Individual Life Stories and Collective Figures of Thought Ulf Palmenfelt The Kalevala Society Folklore Fellows’ Communications 324 Helsinki 2022 ISBN 978-952-9534-03-6 Available at the Tiedekirja bookstore, 32 € Narrated Communities explores accounts of memories and their relationships to narrating and life stories. It brings into focus prominent elements belonging to collective traditions, elements […]

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FFC 323

Folklore Fellows — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 11:40:53 +0000

Folklore and Old Norse Mythology Frog and Joonas Ahola (eds.) The Kalevala Society Folklore Fellows’ Communications 323 Helsinki 2021 696 pages ISBN 978-952-9534-02-9 Available at the Tiedekirja bookstore, 58€ The present volume responds to the rising boom of interest in folklore and folklore research in the study of Old Norse mythology. The twenty-two authors of […]

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FFC 322

Petja Kauppi — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 14:08:08 +0000

The Galician Catalogue typologically records Galician tales within the European oral tradition. It orders them under the internationally recognized ATU (Aarne–Thompson–Uther) index system, uses regional catalogues classification, and includes new cataloguing proposals for uncatalogued ethno-texts. Galicia's rich narrative tradition of the past has now practically disappeared, which has led the editor to also index tales of which there is only one version.

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