Oinas, Studies in finnic folklore

This collection proposes to make Finnish or Balto-Finnic folklore better known in English-speaking countries. Contents Finnic folklore The Finnic epics On the structure of the epic Kalevipoeg Negative parallelism in Karelian-Finnish folklore Gesture and ballads The Sower (Sämpsä Pellervoinen's song) Lemminkäinen and Vavilo Antero Vipunen The gigantic bird of Finnish folklore Väinämöinen's straw stallion F. R. Faehlmann's myth "Dawn and Dusk" Jumi - a fertility divinity Finnish-Karelian Äkräs Ingrian Kirlouks "Water Spirit"