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von Amrum, Eichling [Jenny Chennault]. "Russian Folklore." Complete Anachronist: 34 (1989). [AY]
Slightly hard to follow, basic intro to Russian paganism.
Anstruther, F. C. Old Polish Legends. New York: Hippocrene, 1991.[KS]
Legends are undocumented but some of the stories (e.g., Trumpeter of Krakow) are quasi-documented by other legends in related cultures.
Balassa, Ivan and Gyula Ortutay. Hungarian Ethnography and Folklore. Translated by Maria and Kenneth Bales. Budapest:
Corvina Kiado, 1984. [KA]
Massive book, full of photographs, drawings, and detailed texts.
The Edificatory Prose of Kievan Rus'. Translated by William R. Veder. Introduction by William R. Veder and Anatolij A. Turilov. Harvard Library of Early Ukrainian Literature, English Translations, Vol 6. Cambridge MA: Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard University, 1994. [OKB]
Folk Tales from the Soviet Union: The Baltic Republics. Edited by Robert Babloyan and Mirlena Shumskaya. Moscow:
Raduga, 1986. [AY, EM]
Contains five stories, each translated and illustrated by a different person. Ends with a brief political "sketch" of the region.
Folk Tales from the Soviet Union: The Caucuses. Edited by Robert Babloyan and Mirlena Shumskaya. Moscow: Raduga,
1986. [AY, EM]
Contains six stories, each translated and illustrated by a different person. Ends with a brief political "sketch" of the region.
Folk Tales from the Soviet Union: Central Asia & Kazakhistan. Edited by Robert Babloyan and Mirlena Shumskaya.
Moscow: Raduga, 1986. [AY, EM]
Contains eight stories, each translated and illustrated by a different person. Ends with a brief political "sketch" of the region.
Folk Tales from the Soviet Union: The Ukraine, Byelorussia, and Moldavia. Edited by Robert Babloyan and Mirlena
Shumskaya. Moscow: Raduga, 1986.[AY, EM]
Contains five stories, each translated and illustrated by a different person. Ends with a brief political "sketch" of the region.
Gal, Laszlo. Prince Ivan & the Firebird. Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 1992. [AY, EM]
Nice but uninspiring version of the classic tale. Good, reasonably accurate illustrations by the author, including pictures of garb.
Gaster, M. Rumanian Bird and Beast Stories. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1915. [VCIT]
Hapgood, Isabel Florence. Epic Songs of Russia. 1915. [TNV]
Bunches and bunches of the old byliny. Pretty cool, if you're looking for old oral tales.
Medieval Russia's Epics, Chronicles, and Tales, Second Edition. Edited by Serge A. Zenkovsky. New York: E. P. Dutton,
1974. [EM]
Sixty selections from medieval Russia's finest authors, with background.
Mayhew, James. Koshka's Tales. New York: Kingfisher Books, 1993.[EM]
Fairy tales with nice color illustrations.
Old Hungarian Literary Reader. Edited by Tibor Klaniczay. Budapest: Corvina Kiado, 1985. [KA]
Selections from Hungarian literature of Old Poland.
Pannonius, Janus. The Epigrams. Budapest: Corvina Kiado, 1985.[KA]
Literary work by renown Renaissance Hungarian. Epigrams include the profane, the satirical, and the insulting. Wonderful stuff!
Philip, Neil. Fairy Tales of Eastern Europe. ??, England: Liber Press, 1991. [EM]
Traditional folklore told in modern English.
Russian Fairy Tales. Collected and edited by Aleksandr Afanas'ev. New York: Pantheon Books, 1945. [EM]
Traditional folk and fairy tales.
Russian Gypsy Tales. Edited by James Riordan. ??: Interlink Books, 1992. [AY]
Collected from all over Russia. Not documentably period.
Sokolov, Yuri. Russian Folklore. Hatboro PA: Folklore Associates,1966.
Song of Igor's Campaign. Translated and edited by Vladinmir Nabakov. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. [PV, EM]
Contains extensive, useful, and interesting notes, an introduction worth reading, a map of 12th century Russia, and a genealogical table of Russian princes connected with the work. At times, the translation is a
bit strange (Nabokov has an almost too large vocabulary) but it is a great work.
The Sun Maiden and the Crescent Moon: Siberian Folk Tales. ??: Interlink Books, 1982. [AY]
Surprisingly American Indian flavor to these stories.
Tales From Tartary: Russian Tales, Book Two. Edited by James Riordan. New York: The Viking Press, 1979. [EM]
The first English collection of Tartar folk tales.
Ukrainian Folk Tales. Edited by Olga Shartse and translated by Anatole Bilenko. Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1974. [NPS]
Ukrainian Folk Tales. Edited by Irina Zheleznova. Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1986. [KCh]
Vikings in Russia: Yngvar's Saga and Eymund's Saga. Translated by Hermann Palsson and Paul Edwards. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1989.
Vovchok, Marko. Ukrainian Folk Stories. Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1983. [KCh]
Warner, Elizabeth. Heroes, Monsters, and Other Worlds From Russian Mythology. New York: Schocken Books, 1985. [AY]
Beautiful book. Part of the "In the World" mythology series, lavishly illustrated by Alexander Koshkin. Some history, some culture, but mostly mythology, plus a handy key to Russian pronunciation.