NATATORIAL BIRDS IN THE RUNE-POEMS IN THE KALEVALA METER

<p>Similes and metaphors, based on the symbolic of the natatorial birds, such as the swan, the goose, the scaup duck, the green-winged teal, the oldsquaw - long-tailed duck,  appear across the genres of the verbal description in oral rune-poems in the Kalevala meter. The ethnopoetical constans...

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Main Author: Elina Rakhimova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2015-09-01
Series:Transactions of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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Online Access:http://journals.krc.karelia.ru/index.php/humanities/article/view/86