Riddles--Perspectives on the Use, Function and Change in a Folklore Genre.(Book Review)

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By Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhoj. Studia Fennica Folkloristica, no. 10. Helsinki: SKS (Finnish Literature Society), 2001. 186 pp. Illus. ISBN 951-746-019-8. ISSN 1235-1946

More than thirty years ago, Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhoj began significant studies on riddles. One of her earliest ventures was an unpublished thesis of 1970 examining formulae and language. Further work on structure and classification was published in 1974, and in 1978 followed her meticulous exposition of a common structural scheme within Finnish riddles, The Nominativus Absoltus Formula--One ...

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