The next Celtic-Nordic-Baltic folklore symposium will be held in June 2005 at the University of Iceland in Reykjavík. Our intention is to concentrate on folk legends (see the information on the theme below). We are now calling for papers from researchers, academics and postgraduate students. Should you wish to present a paper at the conference, please contact Terry Gunnell at the University of Iceland, with a provisional title and a brief summary of the paper you would like to present, at terry@hi.is before 1 October 2004. We will then be asking for abstracts and formal confirmation by 1 January 2005.

The aim of the conference, among other things, is to examine:

• the ways in which people report (and reported) history through the medium of oral legends,
• the roles that legends have in shaping communities and mapping out their boundaries through shared worldview, values and ways of comprehending both the community itself and the world around it,
• the history of legend research in the Celtic, Scandinavian and Baltic countries,
• the ways in which collections of legends were used in the past as a means of underlining the national image of a particular community.

We are certain that a great deal of common ground can be found here, not only in terms of migratory legends and motifs that connect Scandinavia, the British Isles, Ireland and the Baltic, but also in terms of the problems related to the interpretion and utilisation of this valuable medium.