出版社：Estonian Literary Museum and Estonian Folklore Institute
摘要：Our lives are in constant change, and so is our intellectual heritage. One of the genres of folklore that has undergone changes is riddles. The Estonian riddle material suggests that classical riddles in their traditional core form have been pushed to the state of static folklore. But since nature hates a vacuum, contemporary riddle types have already started to replace the old riddles. The riddle material of the Estonian Folklore Archives may roughly be divided in two: (1) the nearly 130.000 older traditional riddles (Üks hani, neli nina? – Padi. ‘One goose, four noses? – A pillow’) constituting the main, central body of the total riddle corpus of 175.000 variants;
