Genres and registers of Kalevala-metric poetry have customarily been treated as correlating
concepts. The paper examines a category of Kalevala-metric Origin of Fire incantations as a …

This chapter focuses on the expression, conveyance, performance, and emergence of
emotions in lament poetry. We analyze laments from verbal, musical, aural, and thematic …

Researchers in the field of Kalevala-metric poetry have regularly connected types of
incantations called communicative and origin incantations with Finno-Karelian ritual …

Post-Soviet Latvia and post-apartheid South Africa are far apart geographically and yet have
endured a similar history of colonial and authoritarian rule before transitioning to democracy …