FOLKTALES OF MEANDASH, THE MYTHIC SAMI REINDEER Part II
The first subgroup contains three recorded stories, but as one of the recorded extracts is far too short to analyse, we can only speak of two quoted variants from the Imandra region, and even then the tribal origin of the narrator remains uncertain. Both variants have a similar structure (Table 3)....
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.484.5516 2023-05-15T17:03:14+02:00 FOLKTALES OF MEANDASH, THE MYTHIC SAMI REINDEER Part II Enn Ernits The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.484.5516 http://folklore.ee/folklore/vol13/pdf/meandash.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.484.5516 http://folklore.ee/folklore/vol13/pdf/meandash.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://folklore.ee/folklore/vol13/pdf/meandash.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T08:06:31Z The first subgroup contains three recorded stories, but as one of the recorded extracts is far too short to analyse, we can only speak of two quoted variants from the Imandra region, and even then the tribal origin of the narrator remains uncertain. Both variants have a similar structure (Table 3). We could distinguish between four parts: 1) the building of the reindeer home, 2) marriage, 3) the reaction of the old man’s daughters and 4) their fate. All variants (incl. the fragmentary third variant) contain references to the river of blood separating the two spheres of the universe, which may be crossed only with the help of chanting. The motif of building the reindeer home, which symbolises the young reindeer starting a family life, is not mentioned in the second story, as the widow already had a home. This very motif is also present in two stories of another subgroup from Kildin (9, 10). Thus we might assume that all of the marriage-related stories of the first sub- Text Kildin sami Unknown Imandra ENVELOPE(33.260,33.260,67.849,67.849) |
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The first subgroup contains three recorded stories, but as one of the recorded extracts is far too short to analyse, we can only speak of two quoted variants from the Imandra region, and even then the tribal origin of the narrator remains uncertain. Both variants have a similar structure (Table 3). We could distinguish between four parts: 1) the building of the reindeer home, 2) marriage, 3) the reaction of the old man’s daughters and 4) their fate. All variants (incl. the fragmentary third variant) contain references to the river of blood separating the two spheres of the universe, which may be crossed only with the help of chanting. The motif of building the reindeer home, which symbolises the young reindeer starting a family life, is not mentioned in the second story, as the widow already had a home. This very motif is also present in two stories of another subgroup from Kildin (9, 10). Thus we might assume that all of the marriage-related stories of the first sub- |
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