PREFACE This volume continues the Proceedings of the congress by assembling abstracts of the communications presented on the theme: Guilt (or Pollution) and rites of Purification. These communications were given at section meetings during the afternoons of Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday (September...
Michael Branch Kalevala: from myth to symbol On 28 February 1835, Elias Lönnrot signed the preface to the first edition of Kalevala. This collection of thirty-two cantos had been compiled from oral poetry which for the most part Lönnrot himself had recorded among the unlettered folk in the...