folklore audience familiar forms changing tellings

Audiences help keep folklore recognizable

Folklore can have many versions without one fixed text. When performers stray too far from familiar forms, audiences respond, encouraging performers to adjust future tellings toward shared expectations.

An Icelandic eruption led to a deadly famine

Nearly ¼ Of Iceland'S Population Died

The Laki eruption of 1783–1784 caused a famine that killed nearly a quarter of Iceland's population. Dust and haze from the eruption spread across most of Europe and parts of Africa and Asia for months, and affected climates elsewhere.

Cape Verde has a diaspora larger than its population at home

Generations of emigration have created Cape Verdean communities across Europe, the Americas and Africa. Estimates of the diaspora vary depending on whether they count only people born in Cape Verde or also their descendants. By broad definitions, the number of people with Cape Verdean roots living abroad exceeds the country's resident population.

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