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The Kalevala

Paperback • 2009 • English

The Kalevala

By Elias Lönnrot

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The Kalevala is the great Finnish epic, which like The Iliad and The Odyssey, grew out of a rich oral tradition with prehistoric roots. During the first millennium of our era, speakers of Uralic languages (those outside the Indo-European group) who had settled in the Baltic region of Karelia, that straddles the border of eastern Finland and north-west Russia, developed an oral poetry that was to last into the nineteenth century. This poetry provided the basis of the Kalevala. It was assembled in...Show more

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ISBN

9780199538867

Published year

2009

Language

English

Original title

The Kalevala

Format

Paperback

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