New books released

New books released

FFC 300 Bengt af Klintberg: The Types of the Swedish Folk Legend The documentation of folk legends in Sweden was begun already in the sixteenth century by Olaus Magnus, the last Catholic archbishop, and reached its peak as late as in the first half of the twentieth...
A new book released – FFC 298

A new book released – FFC 298

Nils-Arvid Bringéus, Carl Wilhelm von Sydow: A Swedish Pioneer in Folklore In this book, Professor Emeritus Nils-Arvid Bringéus provides a detailed analysis of the founder of folklore research in Sweden, Professor Carl Wilhelm von Sydow (1878–1952). We are introduced...

The quest for oral text: the third wave?

The oral text will be the object of intensive hunting at the meeting of Folklore Fellows in Oral Epics in Turku during the last week of June. The fact that there is no master version for the oral epic makes the quest for text something of a paradox. The consequences...

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