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Kalevala
Language
English
English
Book
Paperback
The Kalevala is the great Finnish epic, which like the Iliad and the Odyssey, grew out of a rich ora...
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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 millenium 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 the 1840s by the Finnish scholar Elias Lönnrot, who took 'dictation
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About the book
Full name
Kalevala
Author
Elias Lonnrot
Language
English
English
Binding
Book - Paperback
Date of issue
2008
Number of pages
736
EAN
9780199538867
ISBN
0199538867
Libristo code
04035451
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Weight
496
Dimensions
197 x 130 x 33
