Čelakovského překlady a ohlas písní laponských (loparských)

The Sámi literature was introduced to Czech cultural milieu first by František Ladislav Čelakovský in 1839. He translated two poems – Morse faurog and Kulnasatz niraosam. As a model, Čelakovský most probably used Herder's Stimmen der Völker in Liedern. The poems are in the Czech edition accompanied by translation of Spring, min snälla ren! (1810) by Frans Michael Franzén. It is unsure, whether the author of the Sámi poems is Olaus Sirma, who in the original edition from 1673 translated in Latin and commeted them, or a part of the Sámi folklore. Similarities between the poems and Swedish and Finnish baroque poetry may argue for the first eventuality, the Sirma's own commentaries and differences in orthography of the two poems for the other. It's said, however, that in the Sámi context – unlike in Czech –, the opposition of artificial/auctorial literature and oral literature or folklore has been non-essential. When comparing the original of the poems and their Czech translation, it seems that Čelakovský's translations are not so "folklorizing" in terms of their expression or form (e.g. most of the original parallelisms are missing), but in terms their content (limiting of interpretational possibilities, concretization of motifs).