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Previous Folklore Society Events

‘They’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats!’

  • 21/01/2025
  • 19:00-20:30
  • online talk

‘They’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats!’ AI Approaches to Folklore and Political Storytelling A Folklore Society online talk by Timothy R. Tangherlini Tuesday 21 January 2025, 19:00 GMT At a US presidential debate, Donald Trump trotted out a well-known rumor about refugees eating the pets of people living in the communities where they...

Women in Viking Age Folk Narratives

  • 07/01/2025
  • 19:00-20:30
  • online talk

Women in Viking Age Folk Narratives A Folklore Society online talk by Rosalind Kerven Tuesday 7 January 2025, 19:00 GMT Tune in to meet the colourful women of old Norse myths and legends from the earliest reliable sources: The Prose Edda, compiled by a 13th-century Icelandic folklorist; and the slightly later Poetic Edda, narrative poems...