Episode 15 - FOLKLORE: MORE THAN JUST A WORD
The Folklore Podcast
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The Origins of Folklore
When W.F. Kirby announced his intention to produce an English version of the Calvula from a German translation, there was an outcry. As you're writing about the folklore archives in Finland, the folklore society at the time wailed, plaintively, we must all learn Finnish! I think the point is that the investigation into folklore even before that's what we called it, was also not national. A lot of the confusion around the word folk comes from its borrowing from the German folk which doesn't quite mean what the English was intended to mean. In 1989 Vilnius Voigt gave a paper provocatively titled 200 Years of Teaching Folklore at a Hungarian University. He
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