The Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot

The Kalevala

Elias Lönnrot with Keith Bosley (Translator)

679 pages first pub 1849 (editions)

fiction classics poetry adventurous challenging slow-paced
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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) wh...

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