Wisconsin FolkloreJames P. Leary Univ of Wisconsin Press, 15. 1. 1999 - Počet stran: 560 Highly entertaining and richly informative, Wisconsin Folklore offers the first comprehensive collection of writings about the surprisingly varied folklore of Wisconsin. Beginning with a historical introduction to Wisconsin's folklore and concluding with an up-to-date bibliography, this anthology offers more than fifty annotated and illustrated entries in five sections: "Terms and Talk," "Storytelling," "Music, Song, and Dance," "Beliefs and Customs," and "Material Traditions and Folklife." |
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... Norway fraternal lodges to the sustenance of stories surrounding the " Ten Thousand Swedes " rhyme . The ballads " Peter Todenskjold " and " Sinklars - Visen " both appear , in Norwegian and English , in the widely circulating Sons of ...
... Norway and Sweden ( Brunvand 1957 : 225—28 ) . During this war a party of Scottish mercenaries , hired by the Swedish king Gustav Adolf , attempted to march from Romsdal , on the west coast of Norway , to the Swedish border but were ...
... Norway to fight for the money paid by the Scotch government , the frue warned him : " If you come to Norway , S tell you the truth , you'll never come back alive . " Sinclair answered : " You evil troll , always you prophesy disaster ...
... Norway and England were at war , Saint Sinclair , a warrior from England , together with a crew , became the victim of the tricky Norwegians whose leader was the prominent character Pilar Guri . A band of Norwegians who hid in the ...
... Norway even today in reference to any bluff involving numbers . Version G in the Indiana collection could be a vague recollection of that story . But the motif is too common in warfare tradi- tions to be really descriptive of any ...
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Part Two Storytelling | 111 |
Part Three Music Song and Dance | 189 |
Part Four Beliefs and Customs | 305 |
Part Five Material Traditions and Folklife | 387 |
A Selected List | 497 |
A Selected List | 522 |
Index | 526 |