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Endnotes explained
The endnotes provide references and citations for the sources used in the book, including works on the history of the Aesopic fable, accounts of related literature, and the vast collection of unpublished Finnish folktales.
What happens
The endnotes provide references and citations for the sources used in the book, including works on the history of the Aesopic fable, accounts of related literature, and the vast collection of unpublished Finnish folktales.
Key passages
“Finland boasts of 12,000, but most of these lie unprinted among the archives of the Helsingfors Literary Society.”
Finland claims to have 12,000 folktales, though the majority remain unpublished in the archives of the Helsingfors Literary Society.
This note emphasizes the vast but largely unprinted collection of Finnish folktales.