This local glossary is a shelf-specific companion to the central Good Works Glossary. It begins with the main rooms and named texts currently visible in the Baltic shelf.

Shelf Terms

Wonder Tales from Baltic Wizards — Frances Jenkins Olcott's 1928 children's anthology of Lapland, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian wonder tales. See Wonder Tales from Baltic Wizards.

Lāčplēsis — “Bear-Slayer,” the hero of Andrejs Pumpurs's 1888 Latvian national epic. Pumpurs shaped oral legends and nineteenth-century national thought into a six-canto struggle involving Baltic divinities, crusading conquest, betrayal, and the promise of future freedom.

Metai — “The Seasons,” Kristijonas Donelaitis's eighteenth-century Lithuanian poem, first published in 1818. Its four divisions follow weather, labor, village speech, social order, worship, and survival through the agricultural year.

Anykščių šilelis — “The Forest of Anykščiai,” Antanas Baranauskas's poem written in 1858–1859. It remembers the forest through sound, scent, plants, animals, work, sacred memory, and loss, then turns the felled landscape into an account of Lithuanian cultural dispossession. See Anykščių šilelis.