Said a Word, Uttered Thus: Structures and Functions of Parallelism in Arhippa Perttunen's Poems

Verse parallelism is one of the most distinctive features of a Finnic tradition of oral poetry, which is called "kalevalaic poetry" in Finland or "regilaul" in Estonia. This essay presents grammatical and semantic principles and patterns according to which parallel verses are com...

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Main Author: Saarinen, Jukka
Language:English
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10355/65389