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General Bibliography Non-Icelandic

Moll, Otto
Sprichwörter Bibliographie
Frankfurt a. M.
Klostermann
1958

Singer, Samuel
Sprichwörter des Mittelalters, 3 vols.
Bern
1944-7

Singer, Samuel (Kuratorium)
Thesaurus Proverbiorum Medii aevi, 14 vols.

Taylor, Archer
The Proverb

Wander, Karl F. W.
Deutsches Sprichwörter-Lexikon
Leipzig
Brockhaus
1870

Whiting, B.J. & Helen Westcott
Proverbs, Sentences, and proverbial phrases. From English writing mainly before 1500.
Cambridge
Belknap Press
1968
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49. Chamberlain, A. F. “Proverbs in the Making: Some Scientific Commonplaces” J of Am Folk-Lore, XVII (1904) 161-170.

48. Murphy, John. Primitive Man, His Essential Quest London, 1927.

49. Firth, R. “Proverbs in Native Live, with Special Reference to those of the Maori” Folk-Lore XXXII 1926

50. Howell, James. Divers Centuries of New Sayings London 1660, bound with his Lexicon Tetraglotton.

51. Howell, James. PAROIMIOGRAFIA, Proverbs or Old Sayed Sawes bound with Lexicon Tetraglotton.

52. Ray, John Collection of English Proverbs Cambr 1678.

53. Krappe, A. H. The Science of Folk-Lore London, 1939.

54. Firth, “Proverbs in Native Life,” Folk-Lore, XXXVII.

54. B. Sveinsson, ed. Grettis saga Islendinga sogur 28. Rvik 1921.

55. K. Vratny

56. R. S. Rattray, Ashanti Proverbs Oxford, 1916.

59. J. A. Farrer, Primitive Manners and Customs London, 1879.

59. M. Ginsberg, The Material Culture and Social Institutions of the Simpler Peoples London, 1915.

61.. Boas, Franz. “Stylistic Aspects of Primitive Literature,” J of Am Folk-Lore XXXVIII 1925 332-333.

62. Bonser, Wilfred, and T. A. Stephens. Proverb Literature PFLS. No LXXXIX London, 1930, pp. 394-411.

63. C. G. Woodson, African Myths Together with Proverbs Washington, 1928.

64. G. C. Claridge, Wild Bush Tribes of Tropical Africa Philadelphia, 1922.

64. D. Crawford, Thinking Black London, 1914.

64. J. A. Macculloch, The Childhood of Fiction NY, 1905.

66. J. Grimm, Deutsche Rechtsalterthümskunde 4th ed, Leipzig, 1899 I 45 ff.

66. D. Murray, Lawyers’ Merriments Glasgow, 1912.

66. W. D. Hambly, Origin of Education Among Primitive Peoples London ,1926.

67. R. S. Rattray, Ashanti Oxford, 1923.

68. Rattray, Religion and Art in Ashanti Oxford, 1927.

70. Sibree, J. “The Folk-Lore of Malagasy Birds,” Folk-Lore II (1891) 336-366.

71. Crowther, S. Vocabulary of the Yoruba Language London, 1852. See O. E. Vidal in this volume

71. Melland, F. H. In Witch-Bound Africa London, 1923.

71. Burton, R. F. Wit and Wisdom from West Africa London, 1865.

75. Radin, P. Primitive Man as Philosopher NY, 1927.

77. Ivens, W. G. Melanesians of the South-east Solomon Islands London, 1927.






 
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