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How to make the daughter of a giant a Sami: a myth of the Sami people's origin / Vuokko Hirvonen.
Title: | How to make the daughter of a giant a Sami: a myth of the Sami people's origin / Vuokko Hirvonen. |
Author(s): | Hirvonen, Vuokko. |
Date: | 2000. |
Publisher: | Turku: Nordic Network of Folklore |
In: | Sami Folkloristics. (2000.), |
Abstract: | Study of Saami myth of proposal as told in "The son of the sun's courting journey to the land of the giants", written down by Anders Fellner in 1873. Article describes yoik form of story. Many items and characters come in threes: goddesses, wind knots, questions, trunks, brothers of giantess. Symbolism of giantess's journey as marriage, conception and childbirth is explained. |
Notes: | In: Sami Folkloristics / Juha Pentikäinen. |
Keywords: | 39 -- Ethnography: Saami. 398 -- Native peoples, folk beliefs and tales. 398.22 -- Sagas and historic legends. T -- Social anthropology and ethnography. (*3) -- Arctic regions. (*55) -- European Arctic. |
SPRI record no.: | 156456 |
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