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Folk Song Collections—The Early Ones

Kondoru

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Im thinking about 16th century yes?

The song I am looking for isnt British, it was collected in Lapland.

Its about a Reindeer.

Does anyone know anything about these collections?
 
@Konduru can you remember the context you found the idea in?
 
collected in Lapland.

Folksong collection was very much a 19th Century thing, when they seemed endangered. They are hard to date, though folk-melodies have their family-trees. I tend to the view that, like chapbooks and broadsheets, they are a lot less ancient than they appear and that Anonymous was often a woman! :thought:
 
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