出版社：Estonian Literary Museum and Estonian Folklore Institute
摘要：The dominant poetic metre in oral folklore depends on the structure of the particular language, especially on its prosody (see, e.g., Korhonen 1994: 77). The present article aims at studying these aspects in poetry in Kalevala metre, a common phenomenon of Baltic Finnic peoples. Besides alliteration and parallelism, another feature characterizing Kalevala metre is a quantitative trochee with specific rules. Due to those specific rules, the Kalevala metre trochee may be referred to as `trochee' only with reservations, and that applies to the use of the term throughout the article. I have analysed the regularities and idiosyncrasies in the verse structure of regilaulud (Kalevala metre songs) *1 from Kullamaa parish that were recorded in a phase of disintegration or alteration, and I have made an attempt to compare deviations from the classical regivärss with changes in the Estonian language that might have caused them. In Estonian folkloristics, at least, the mutual cumulative effect of the language and the poetic metre on the development of regilaul has not been analysed sufficiently. In various studies and surveys this aspect is referred to, but a thorough explanation is still missing. The present article provides likewise a collection of suppositional connections, only pointing out potential factors. One substantial default of the article is that it nearly fails to discuss a similarly important aspect - the impact of music (alterations of mainly foreign origin) on poetic metre or language, and vice versa
