Songs of the Border People

Résumé du livre

Rune-singing in the Kalevale meter is one of the few European oral poetries to survive the long nineteenth century, In her comprehensive study of the poems collected in the Archangel Karelian parish of Vuokkiniemi, Lotte Tarkka places this tradition within historical and ethnographic realities, contexts of local and elite ideologies, and the system of folklore genres.