The Maiden's Death Song & The Great Wedding : Anne Vabarna's Oral Twin Epic Written Down By A. O. Väisänen : FF Communications 281
90: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 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. Composed by Seto/Setu singer and "song mother" Anne Vabarna (1877 -1964). 529 pp. In English. Fine. Item #3079
ISBN: 9514109031
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