TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ...................................................................................................... ix
VAIRA VƮƶE-FREIBERGA (RIGA, LATVIA)
Foreword ..................................................................................................................... xi
DACE BULA (RIGA, LATVIA) AND SIGRID RIEUWERTS (MAINZ, GERMANY)
Introduction.................................................................................................................... 1
HERDER’S LEGACY: LATVIA AND FOLKSONG
DACE BULA (RIGA, LATVIA)
Latvian Folksongs: Collected, Published and Studied ................................................. 7
SABINE WIENKER-PIEPHO (FREIBURG, GERMANY)
Herder and the Development of His Volkslied Concept During His Time in Riga .... 30
KRISTINA JAREMKO-PORTER (EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND)
A Return to the Rural Idyll: The Herderian Past
in Latvian Ethnographic Singing ................................................................................ 40
SIGRID RIEUWERTS (MAINZ, GERMANY)
The Voice of the Scottish Muse on the Shores of the Frozen Baltic:
Robert Jamieson, Sir Walter Scott and Riga .............................................................. 51
BARBARA BOOCK (FREIBURG, DEUTSCHLAND)
Lettische Volkslieder in Karl Marx’ internationaler
Volksliedsammlung für seine Braut Jenny von Westphalen ...................................... 61
SINGING THE NATIONS: CULTURE AND RHETORIC
MATILDA BURDEN (STELLENBOSCH, SOUTH AFRICA)
Oom Jannie, Queen Victoria, Diamonds and
the Roots of Afrikaner Nationalism ............................................................................ 71
VELLE ESPELAND (OSLO, NORWAY)
Establishing a Corpus of National Songs ................................................................... 80
MARÍA HERRERA-SOBEK (SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A.)
Nationalist Rhetoric and Religious Faith:
Mexican Nationalism in Virgin of Guadalupe Songs ................................................. 90
KATALIN JUHÁSZ (BUDAPEST, HUNGARY)
The Song of the Martyrs of Arad ...............................................................................103
KIRSTEN KEARNEY (STIRLING, SCOTLAND)
The Rupture of History: Nationalistic Abuse of Oral and Literary
Poetry in Nazi Germany. The Case of Agnes Miegel ...............................................113
ISABELLE PEERE (BRUXELLES, BELGIQUE)
Le chant des Belges en 1914-18 – l’élan d’une nation ..............................................120
GERALD PORTER (VAASA, FINLAND)
“To Tread on the Neck of the Czar”: Imitation and Disorder
in the Historical Song ................................................................................................136
LIINA SAARLO (TARTU, ESTONIA)
Searching for Art and History in Folksongs ..............................................................144
STUDYING THE NATIONS: TEXTS AND TRADITIONS
VALENTINA BOLD (GLASGOW, SCOTLAND)
Frank Miller (1854-1944): Scotland’s Forgotten Collector ......................................153
KATHERINE CAMPBELL (EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND)
William Christie: Some Sources for Traditional Ballad Airs ....................................164
MARY-ANN CONSTANTINE (ABERYSTWYTH, WALES)
From Druids to Dairymaids:
Iolo Morganwg (1747-1826) and Welsh Oral Tradition ...........................................173
LENE HALSKOV HANSEN (MERN, DENMARK)
The Love of Dance in Medieval Denmark or
Whatever Happened to the Chain Dance in Danish Ballad Research? ......................182
EMILY LYLE (EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND)
Songs from South-West Scotland, 1825-1830: Motherwell’s
Personal Records in Relation to Records in Crawfurd’s Collection .........................188
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TIIU JAAGO (TARTU, ESTONIA)
Lyric Folk Songs of Karuse Parish in West Estonia ..................................................199
JANIKA ORAS (TARTU, ESTONIA)
Searching for the Singer in Archive Texts .................................................................213
SINGING AND SHARING: CUSTOMS AND CONCEPTS
FRANCES J. FISCHER (EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND)
Gender Imbalance in Ballad Baby Births ...................................................................223
COZETTE GRIFFIN-KREMER (BREST, FRANCE)
The French Muguet (Lily-of-the-Valley) in Song ......................................................231
AADDO LINTROP (TARTU, ESTONIA)
Divination in Estonian Regi-Songs.............................................................................242
MARTIN LOVELACE (ST. JOHN’S, CANADA)
Neighbours and Night Visits in the Song Repertoire of Clarence Blois ....................251
RNjTA MUKTUPƖVELA (RIGA, LATVIA)
Weaning Traditions in Latvian Folksongs and Ethnographical Materials .................261
ANDREW C. ROUSE (PÉCS, HUNGARY)
Telling the Time: The Popular Concept of Time in Song ..........................................268
DIALOGUES OF GENRES: HERDER’S LEGACY ENLARGED
MARTIN BOIKO (RIGA, LATVIA)
Balkan and Baltic Vocal Polyphonies: Comparative Aspects....................................281
HANS KUHN (CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA)
The Melodies of Icelandic Rímur ...............................................................................286
MARI SARV (TARTU, ESTONIA)
Possible Points of Convergence in the Metrical History
of Estonian and Latvian Folk Songs...........................................................................293
DAVID ATKINSON (LONDON, ENGLAND)
The English ‘Maid’ and the Ballad Idea.....................................................................298
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BAIBA BELA AND IEVA GARDA (RIGA, LATVIA)
The Link Between Real-Life Experiences and the Latvian Literary Ballad ..............309
MARJETKA GOLEŽ KAUýIý (LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA)
“The Tenth Daughter”: From a Fairy Tale to Contemporary Literature ....................317
WILLIAM BERNARD MCCARTHY (KITTERY, MAINE, U.S.A.)
Drawn from the Yarrow Stream: A Variant of John Logan’s
“Braes of Yarrow” in Oral Tradition ..........................................................................328
J. J. DIAS MARQUES (FARO, PORTUGAL)
“The Vanishing Hitchhiker” Theme in Portuguese Balladry .....................................340
BƖRBALA STRODA (RIGA, LATVIA)
The Use of Folk Poetry in Fantasy Genre Literature..................................................351
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