KALEVALA AND FINNISH FOLK-LORE

FOLKLORE/MEDIEVAL/RELIGST/SCANDST 342

Mythology, literature, ritual, traditions, medieval folklore, and religion from Nordic areas and Scandinavia.

FOLKLORE 460

Oral nature, structure, performance traditions, and epic ideology, from various world areas.

FOLKLORE/LITTRANS/MEDIEVAL/SCANDST 345

Exploring the oral nature and performance traditions of folklore, ethnography, tales and ballads, literature and culture from Nordic areas and Scandinavia.

FOLKLORE/LITTRANS 347

A look at the Kalevala, the Finnish creation myth and national epic of Finland, and how it affected Finnish national identity and the eventual Finnish independence from Russia.

MEDIEVAL/SCANDST 409

Eddic and skaldic poetry; homilies and saints' lives, kings' sagas, sagas of the Icelanders; mythical-heroic sagas and romances; rimur.