This article provides accounts of delights and distractions – enjoyments and pastimes – from consultants representing every Courland Livonian dialect. Without altering their content, the accounts have been supplemented and arranged so they form fluid texts understandable to the reader. The content in Livonian is left in its original spelling with the corresponding form in the modern Livonian orthography given in brackets.

ESUKA / JEFUL. Special issue “Studies on Livonian III”. 2018.

Full article: Renāte Blumberga, Delights and distractions: descriptions and vocabulary in the 1927 and 1928 Livonian ethnographic expedition materials of Ferdinand Linnus [ESUKA – JEFUL 2018, 9–2]