Tales From The Forest Lands

his volume of tales from the north concentrates on Finland. Many of these stories have their roots in the folklore of Finnish paganism, and they have many features shared with fellow Finnic Estonian mythology and other Uralic fables. Finnish folklore also shares some similarities with neighbouring Baltic, Slavic and to a lesser extent, Norse mythologies. Much of Finnish mythology survived within an oral tradition of mythical poem-singing and folklore well into the 19th century. One of my fa...