This collection proposes to make Finnish or Balto-Finnic folklore better known in English-speaking countries.

Contents
Finnic folklore
The Finnic epics
On the structure of the epic Kalevipoeg
Negative parallelism in Karelian-Finnish folklore
Gesture and ballads
The Sower (Sämpsä Pellervoinen's song)
Lemminkäinen and Vavilo
Antero Vipunen
The gigantic bird of Finnish folklore
Väinämöinen's straw stallion
F. R. Faehlmann's myth "Dawn and Dusk"
Jumi - a fertility divinity
Finnish-Karelian Äkräs
Ingrian Kirlouks "Water Spirit"