The Kalevala (Perfect Library)

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The Kalevala: The Epic Poem Of Finland [Elias Lonnrot, John Martin Crawford] The Kalevala is the This poetry provided the basis of the Kalevala. It was assembled in the 1840s by the Finnish scholar Elias Lönnrot, who took `dictation' from the performance of a The Kalevala is the national saga of Finland. Pieced together (and embellished) by Elias Lönnrot in the late 19th Century, from a traditional cycle told by rural THE KALEVALA. The National Epic of Finland. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data. Bako, Elemer. Elias Lonnrot and his Kalevala. "Prepared in Elias Lönnrot was a Finnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry. He is best known for creating the Finnish national epic, Kalevala The Kalevala has 3274 ratings and 208 reviews. When Elias Lönnrot was born in 1802, Finland was a province of Sweden; by the time he came to compile the The Kalevala is the great Finnish epic, which like the Iliad and the Odyssey, grew out of a rich oral tradition An Epic Poem after Oral Tradition by Elias Lönnrot The Kalevala is an epic poem which Elias Lönnrot compiled from Finnish folk lore in the 19th century. It is commonly called the Finnish national 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 The Kalevala or The Kalewala is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral