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This article belongs to folk linguistics. I have a query which includes ca. 300 informants. In standard Finnish, the 3. person pronoun “hän” refers to a human being (both female and male), and “se” to an animal, a thing, or an abstract idea. Nevertheless, these expressions are not typically used in all traditional folk dialects or in the actual colloquial language, as above. In my query, I want to...
The main goal of the paper is to describe the spells and charms of the Finnish sages as the part of the Finnish oral tradition and briefly discuss their characteristic features, such as the metre (so called Kalevala metre), alliteration and repetition on the example of one particular fragment of a spell. More attention is given to the spell as the oral phenomenon and the vocal performance it reąuired...
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