Baltic folklore, mythic survivals, and sacred narratives from Lithuanian, Latvian, and neighboring traditions.
Folders
Latvian — Latvian epic, song, folklore, drama, poetry, and prose, beginning with the original-language national epic Lāčplēsis. (1)
Lithuanian — Lithuanian poetry, song, epic, prose, and drama, beginning with Donelaitis's Metai and Baranauskas's forest poem Anykščių šilelis in their original language. (2)
Pages
Glossary — A shelf-specific glossary starter for the Baltic shelf.
Introduction to Baltic Religion — A source-critical introduction to Baltic religion as a field of late conversion, song archives, sacred landscape, divine names, folklore, modern revival, and source discipline.
Wonder Tales from Baltic Wizards — Frances Jenkins Olcott — Wonder Tales from Baltic Wizards — Frances Jenkins Olcott's 1928 children's anthology of Lapland, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian wonder tales, useful as a mediated folklore source rather than a direct guide to ancient Baltic religion.