The Maiden’s Death Song & The Great Wedding: Anne Vabarna’s Oral Twin Epic written down by A. O. Vaisanen

Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2003.
First Edition.

24cm x 15cm. 529 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated glossy papered boards.

For centuries, the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea have nourished poetic cultures developing oral epic traditions that mostly survived in lays of a few hundred lines but that eventually gave rise to much longer traditional epics. The Maiden’s Death Song & The Great Wedding is a manifestation of a long epic format rare in Baltic-Finnish folk poetry and of two alternative storylines. It is also a masterpiece that serves as a reminder of the poetry of a gifted minority culture that tends to be forgotten. FF Communications No. 281 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.

. Fine Condition.

AU$80.00

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