Volumul de faţă cuprinde 1062 de scrisori, care, în intervalul 1930–1949, au circulat între Ion Muşlea şi respondenţii la chestionarele Arhivei de Folklor a Academiei Române. [...] Cu excepţia a douăsprezece scrisori, care au circulat între Ion Muşlea şi preotul profesor Victor Ioan Oprişu, publicate de Ioachim Lazăr, restul de o mie cincizeci sunt inedite, păstrate în cadrul Institutului „Arhiva de Folclor a Academiei Române”, în dosarele administrative ale primului director al Arhivei, sub eticheta „Ieşiri 1930–1948”.

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“Starting with the early 1970s Fântânele (Bistrița-Năsăud County) has been a well-known site in the archaeological literature referring to the Migration Period and Early Middle Ages in Transylvania. Although the excavations carried out on the hill called Dealul Popii or Dâmbul Popii by the research team lead by Ion Horaţiu Crişan have never been published exhaustively, the site was included in several synthesis works on the topic of the archaeological material from Transylvania belonging to the Migration Period, respectively to the 6th–7th centuries. The main goal of the present volume is to fill this gap by publishing all the known data regarding the mentioned discoveries based on the original documentation (written and drawn record) on one hand, and on the grave-goods identified with a few exceptions in the Institute of Archaeology and Art History, Cluj-Napoca, on the other hand.” (Foreword)