Inari Sami folklore : stories from Aanaar / August V. Koskimies and Toivo I. Itkonen, revised by Lea Laitinen ; edited and translated by Tim Frandy.

By:

Koskimies, Aukusti Valdemar, 1856-1929 [author.]

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Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780299319038
0299319032

Uniform titles:

Inarinlappalaista kansantietoutta. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Inari Sami folklore.DDC classification:

398.2094897/7 23

LOC classification:

GR201.I63 K6713 2019eb

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Contents:

Songs -- Animal tales -- Fairy tales -- Short tales -- Humorous stories and anecdotes -- Belief legends -- Historical and regional legends -- Stories about Cudit -- Peeivih vualappa -- Stories about the Skolts -- Hunting stories -- Personal experience narratives -- Proverbs and figures of speech -- Riddles -- Omens and signs -- Appendices.

Summary: This anthology of folk tales, legends, joik-songs, proverbs, riddles, and omens represent the most comprehensive collection of Sámi oral tradition available in English to date. Collected in 1886 by A.V. Koskimies in the small arctic village of Aanaar (Inari), Finland, and later augmented by Toivo Itkonen and Lea Laitinen, it includes more than 150 stories and songs, and hundreds of proverbs, omens, and riddles, from nearly two dozen storytellers. It paints a picture of late nineteenth-century life in Aanaar, showing important changes occurring within the community, the hopes and fears of local people, and the complex web of social relations that existed both inside and outside the community.

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Originally published as Inarinlappalaista Kansantietoutta (Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, 1978).

This anthology of folk tales, legends, joik-songs, proverbs, riddles, and omens represent the most comprehensive collection of Sámi oral tradition available in English to date. Collected in 1886 by A.V. Koskimies in the small arctic village of Aanaar (Inari), Finland, and later augmented by Toivo Itkonen and Lea Laitinen, it includes more than 150 stories and songs, and hundreds of proverbs, omens, and riddles, from nearly two dozen storytellers. It paints a picture of late nineteenth-century life in Aanaar, showing important changes occurring within the community, the hopes and fears of local people, and the complex web of social relations that existed both inside and outside the community.