The God Perkūnas of the Ancient Lithuanians in Language, Folklore, and Historical Sources Nijolė Laurinkienė The Kalevala Society Folklore Fellows’ Communications 327 Helsinki 2023 336 pages ISBN 978-952-9534-08-1 Soon available at the Tiedekirja bookstore The God Perkūnas of the Ancient Lithuanians is the most thorough and extensive work on the Lithuanian thunder god to date. […] The post IN PRESS: FFC 327 appeared first on Folklore Fellows ..read more

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 […] The post FFC 296 & 297, 2nd Printing appeared first on Folklore Fellows ..read more

The God Perkūnas of the Ancient Lithuanians in Language, Folklore, and Historical Sources Nijolė Laurinkienė The Kalevala Society Folklore Fellows’ Communications 327 Helsinki 2023 336 pages ISBN 978-952-9534-08-1 Soon available at the Tiedekirja bookstore The God Perkūnas of the Ancient Lithuanians is the most thorough and extensive work on the Lithuanian thunder god to date. […] The post IN PRESS: FFC 327 appeared first on Folklore Fellows ..read more

FFN 57: Welcome to the New Editor, Heidi Henriikka Mäkelä! The post FFN 57 appeared first on Folklore Fellows ..read more

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. The post FFC 326 appeared first on Folklore Fellows ..read more

FFN 56: Folklore Fellows on the Threshold of a New Era The post FFN 56 appeared first on Folklore Fellows ..read more

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. The post FFC 325 appeared first on Folklore Fellows ..read more

Contents Ships Pass in the Night No More? Frog Close Walking Matthias Egeler Types of Mongolian Folktale and Database Construction S. Tsetsenmunkh Folklore Fellows Summer School 2021 Jesse Barber Review: Folkloristics in the Digital Age Merrill Kaplan Review: Visions and Traditions Dani Schrire Folklore Fellows’ Communications – Sale Folklore Fellows´Communications in 2021     Read, […] The post FFN 55 appeared first on Folklore Fellows ..read more

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 […] The post FFC 324 appeared first on Folklore Fellows ..read more

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 […] The post FFC 323 appeared first on Folklore Fellows ..read more