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  2. Folklore - Wikipedia

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    Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture. [1] This includes oral traditions such as tales, myths, legends, [a] proverbs, poems, jokes, and other oral traditions. [3][4] This also includes material culture, such as traditional building styles common to the group.

  3. Kalevala - Wikipedia

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    The Kalevala (IPA: [ˈkɑleʋɑlɑ]) is a 19th-century compilation of epic poetry, compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology, [1] telling an epic story about the Creation of the Earth, describing the controversies and retaliatory voyages between the peoples of the land of Kalevala called Väinölä and the land of Pohjola and their various protagonists ...

  4. The Song of Hiawatha - Wikipedia

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    The Song of Hiawatha. Hiawatha and Minnehaha, a bronze sculpture created by Jacob Fjelde in 1912 near Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis. The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem in trochaic tetrameter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow which features Native American characters. The epic relates the fictional adventures of an Ojibwe warrior named ...

  5. Folk poetry - Wikipedia

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    Folk poetry in general has several characteristics. It may be informal and unofficial, generally lacks an owner and may "belong" to the society, and its telling may be an implicitly social activity. [1] The term can refer to poems of an oral tradition that may date back many years; [2] that is, it is information that has been transmitted over ...

  6. List of epic poems - Wikipedia

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    Khun Chang Khun Phaen, a Thai poem. Klei Khan Y Dam San, a Vietnamese poem. Koti and Chennayya and Epic of Siri, Tulu poems. Kutune Shirka, sacred yukar epic of the Ainu people of which several translations exist. Lay of Mouse-fate (Musurdvitha), a fantasy epic inspired by animal fable and Arthurian legend.

  7. Beowulf - Wikipedia

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    Beowulf at Wikisource. Beowulf (/ ˈbeɪəwʊlf /; [1] Old English: Bēowulf [ˈbeːowuɫf]) is an Old English epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. It is one of the most important and most often translated works of Old English literature. The date of composition is a matter of contention ...

  8. Völuspá - Wikipedia

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    Völuspá (also Vǫluspá, Vǫlospá or Vǫluspǫ́; Old Norse: 'Prophecy of the völva, a seeress') is the best known poem of the Poetic Edda. It tells the story of the creation of the world and its coming end and subsequent rebirth, related to the audience by a völva addressing Odin. It is one of the most important primary sources for the ...

  9. Irish folklore - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Irish folklore (Irish: béaloideas) refers to the folktales, balladry, music, dance and mythology of Ireland. It is the study and appreciation of how people lived. The folklore of Ireland includes banshees, fairies, leprechauns and other mythological creatures, and was typically shared orally by people gathering around, sharing stories.