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L: Popular Oral Tradition
1960-1981
This series contains items relating to oral tradition, including folktales, verse, riddles, proverbs and conventional expressions.
Regional Social Histories
1969-1982
This subseries contains items relating largely to the social history of specific areas, including details of folk custom. Of the subseries' eight component parts, six are photocopies of original manus...
Folk Tales
1964-1981
This subseries contains items relating to aspects and types of folktales. The subject matter includes folk tales generally, Maori folk literature, African folktales, Gaelic storytelling and folktales,...
Verse
[1960s-1970s]
This subseries contains items relating to verse and folk poetry. The subject matter includes British monologues; long narrative verse including 'Beowulf' and other Old English poetry; copies of pages ...
Riddles
1960-1978
This subseries contains papers on riddles, and their themes and variations, including a paper by Peter Nalder on the Archer Taylor riddle index, papers by Stewart Sanderson chiefly on Scottish riddles...
Proverbs, Sayings and Expressions
1964-1979
This subseries contains items relating to proverbs, maxims and common expressions. It includes correspondence collected from informants in the Potteries region (Staffordshire) on proverbs and sayings ...
Maori Folk Literature 1
Dewes, Koro
1974
This file contains photocopies of two typed papers by Koro Dewes, being 'Maori Literature: A Tentative Framework for Study' ( Victoria University of Wellington, Department of Anthropology and Maori), ...
Folk Tales: Miscellaneous 1
1977-1981
This file contains a sample offprint from the 'Enzyklopädie des Märchens: Handwörterbuch zue historischen und vergleichenden Erzählforschung', ed. Kurt Ranke (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1977), Ban...
Folktales: Miscellaneous 2
[1970-1973]
This file contains items relating to folklore and folktale, including folktales from Sub-Saharan Africa. This includes a photocopy of an ms. paper by Lindi Shembi Williams of the University of Botswan...
The Gaelic Story-Teller. With Some Notes on Gaelic Folk-Tales.
Ó Duilearga, Séamus
[1960s-1970s]
This file contains 3 photocopies of James Hamilton Delargy's (i.e. Séamus Ó Duilearga) paper on Gaelic story-telling, delivered on 28 November 1945 to the British Academy as the Sir John Rhys Memori...
Maori Folk Literature 2
Orbell, Margaret Rose
1973-1975
This file contains 2 offprints by Margaret Orbell on Maori folktales, being 'Two Versions of the Maori Story of Te Tahi o te Rangi', offprinted from the 'Journal of the Polynesian Society', volume 82,...
Märchen
1980-1981
This file contains Claude Luttrell's paper on folk-tale elements in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight', reprinted from 'Studies in Philology', volume LXXVII, number 2 (Spring 1981), pp. 105-127; and By...