Icelandic-Canadian memory lore
- Publisher
- Canadian Museum of History
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1992
- Subjects
- Folklore & Mythology
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781772823608
- Publish Date
- Jan 1992
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Description
These 332 examples of Icelandic traditional poetry and other bound language include children’s rhymes, rigmaroles, riddles, lullabies and prayer verses; adult lore such as dance and drinking songs; religious and humorous poems; and proverbs and sayings. All texts are from a collection recorded in western Canada and North Dakota and Washington in the late 1960s.