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WR150: Folk Narratives in Northern Europe
SUBJECT HEADINGS.
Representative subject headings for locating books in the Boston University online Catalog include the following:
- folklore ireland
- folklore methodology
- folklore scandinavia
- folklore structural analysis
- legends ireland
- legends scandinavia
- legends sweden
- mythology celtic
- mythology norse
- supernatural
- tales ireland
- tales sweden
REFERENCE WORKS.
- Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture. (BU-px).
- A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. (BU-px).
A Dictionary of World Mythology. (BU-px).
- An Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, and other Supernatural Creatures. 1976.
- Mugar GR549 B74 1976b Storage: Use request Form
- The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales. 3 vols. 2008.
- Mugar Ref. X GR74 G73 2008
- The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore and Folklife. 4 vols. 2005.
- Mugar Ref. X GR35 G75 2006
- Handbook of Norse Mythology. 2001.
- Mugar Ref. X BL860 L56 2001
- Motif-Index of Early Irish Literature. 1952.
- Mugar GR67 F52
- Motif-Index of Folk Literature: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books, and Local Legends. 6 vols. 1955-1958.
- Mugar GR67 F55
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2005. (BU-px).
- Oxford Reference Online (BU-px)
- Contains dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these works. Includes reference works in mythology, folklore, classics, literature, religion, and philosophy.
INDEXES AND DATABASES.
- ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature) 1920 - . (ChRiv-px)
- The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature contains 860,000 records, covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards.
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index. 1975 - . (BU-px).
- Provides author, subject and citation access to the literature in the humanities. Includes book reviews.
- Humanities Full Text. 1983 - . (ChRiv-px).
- Indexes and abstracts periodical literature in the humanities. Includes full text of articles from nearly 250 journals as far back as 1995. For retrospective searching (1907-1984) use Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective, which indexes nearly 1,200 periodicals as early as 1907.
- JSTOR (Journal Storage) (BU-px).
- Full-text collection of back issues (from volume 1 to a few years ago) of scholarly journals, many of them in literature. Includes book reviews.
- MLA International Bibliography. 1926 - . (BU-px)
- International index to journals, series, monographs, working papers, bibliographies and dissertations on modern languages, literature, linguistics and folklore.
- Project Muse. (ChRiv-px).
- Full-text articles from many humanities journals. Includes book reviews.
ADDITIONAL LINKS.
Irish Literature, Mythology, Folklore and Drama
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J. Christina Smith (email name: jchris)