Which folklorist collected and published the Latvian folk songs called dainas?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D. Krišjānis Barons
- Step 1: Dainas are short folk songs, usually of four lines. Step 2. Barons edited the great collection Latvju dainas, published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Answer: Krišjānis Barons. Why not the others: Kronvalds and Valdemārs were leaders of the national awakening, and Pumpurs wrote the epic.
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