But then again, looks could be deceiving...
Native American/First nation
Aztec/Maya
English/Cornish/Welsh
Scottish
Irish
Norse
Russian
Alpine
French
German
Italian/Roman
Iberian
Japanese
Chinese
Hindu/Buddhist
Muslim
African
Central Asian
Polynesian
Australian
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But then again, looks could be deceiving...
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I voted Norse but meant Finnish. I've been listening to heaps of Folk Metal lately, but particularly Finntroll. Its bloody choice, listening to songs about Trolls and Dryads in the woods is sick!
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You can't just categorize them like that.There are lots of different folklores.And two muslim folklore may be very different from each other.
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yeah the classification is pretty .....stereotypic minded. I believe.Originally Posted by cenkiss
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Norse/German. Mainly the sagas about the old Gods and the culture surrounding it.
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Norwegian folklore and folk tales are full of scary trolls,evil spirits, dark elves, dwarves and women with tails that lure men to the underworld,
the folk traditions and the cultural identity is very much more rooted in the 17th and 18th century Norwegian rural culture.
Nøkken is male water spirits who played enchanted songs on the violin, luring women and children to drown in lakes or streams.
Huldra is a stunningly beautiful, sometimes naked woman with long hair; though from behind she is hollow like an old tree trunk, and has an animal's tail, she lures young men down to the underworld.
Norwegian Folkdance
lol...
the Norwegian National costume the Bunad is based on what the Norwegian peasent wore in the 19th Century, every region and county has a different bunad.
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Music-wise, African American folklore. Gotta love the blues.
Also, rock music originated from there.
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Norse, defineltey, although Scandinavian would perhaps be a more accurate description. I can see that the rest of the VV is sensible enough...
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Yeah, Scandinavian would be better suited if you're referring to the Eddan mythology. Voted Norse in lack of better formulation.
Edit: Both Greek and Hindi folklore are very interesting as well.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi_Jing
don't think any compilation was older than that and still widely studied as that one.
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Well, that is pretty much an overkill ^^ #26
He he he, we even had to build a country, just to hold all the sagas and folk lore intact, it's called IcelandSerious tho, folk lore in Norway, is as commen as the american automobile in america, secularism in france, horses in Mongolia, etc. It's very deep, so deep that most young people have no clue.
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Thorolf was thus armed. Then Thorolf became so furious that he cast his shield on his back, and, grasping his halberd with both hands, bounded forward dealing cut and thrust on either side. Men sprang away from him both ways, but he slew many. Thus he cleared the way forward to earl Hring's standard, and then nothing could stop him. He slew the man who bore the earl's standard, and cut down the standard-pole. After that he lunged with his halberd at the earl's breast, driving it right through mail and body, so that it came out at the shoulders; and he lifted him up on the halberd over his head, and planted the butt-end in the ground. There on the weapon the earl breathed out his life in sight of all, both friends and foes. [...] 53, Egil's Saga- The pranks played on the knight Jean de Joinville, 1249, 7th crusade.I must tell you here of some amusing tricks the Comte d'Eu played on us. I had made a sort of house for myself in which my knights and I used to eat, sitting so as to get the light from the door, which, as it happened, faced the Comte d'Eu's quarters. The count, who was a very ingenious fellow, had rigged up a miniature ballistic machine with which he could throw stones into my tent. He would watch us as we were having our meal, adjust his machine to suit the length of our table, and then let fly at us, breaking our pots and glasses.
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Praeses
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There can never be enough of Norway Wille!
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Does 19th or early 20th Century American count? Because I'm sure many Americans told camp-fire tales of the Old West.
If not, I may go with either Roman, Greek, Irish, or English (Anglo-Saxon folklore, and Shakespeare too!).
Praepositus
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English/Welsh.
Praefectus
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Norse is the wiener!
Heavily influenced some great literary works, such as Lord of the Rings. (obviously it has more influences than just Norse
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Well it's more mythology than folklore, actually most Norwegians didn't know jack about the Prosse Edda, old Norse mythology or couldn't care less about the Viking age before French and German scholars started showing interest in the subjects, it was the French who resurrected Snorre Sturlason Heimskringla back into puplic conciousness as he was almost forgotten in Norway
I guess the raise of Nordicism helped a bit too, but a lot of the elements from or old mythology is part of the folklore like trolls, dwarves, nisser and elves.
I really hate the "ZOMG NORWEGIANS ARE VIKINGS AND THEY WORSHIP ODIN" like norway don't have any history after that...personally I find Norwgian history from the 11th to 13th century much more intresting.
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God bless Norway
PS: It's ridiculous to leave out the Balkans when voting for folklore. And even more to speak of Muslim folklore. I assure you Turks have very different stories from Pakistanis
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I can't believe you left out Finland! I could be wrong, but I remember reading that Finns have been the most ardent recorders of local folklore, amassing the largest archives.
The most famous item is of course the epic Kalevala.
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I was gonna read the Kalevala once... Then I realized how long it was.I can't believe you left out Finland! I could be wrong, but I remember reading that Finns have been the most ardent recorders of local folklore, amassing the largest archives.
The most famous item is of course the epic Kalevala.
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David Lloyd George was pleased with his performance at Versailles.
Vicarius
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Nah...you ripped off Disney
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