Little Almanac

Baltic

Where
Lithuania, Latvia and the historic Prussian lands
When
documented from the thirteenth century, with practice recorded into the modern period
What survives
Chronicles written by outsiders during conquest, then a very large nineteenth and twentieth century folk-song collection.

1 entry

Every entry here carries an evidence grade, because the distance between the evidence and the subject is the first thing to know about this material.

  • The Latvian Dainas as EvidencePrimary textEvidence grade D of five, A strongest, E weakest: Later collection at a substantial remove

    A very large corpus of Latvian folk songs collected in the nineteenth century, and what a late collection of oral material can and cannot establish.