Kalevala : the Epic Poem of Finland — Complete
Elias Lönnrot · English
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Kalevala : the Epic Poem of Finland — Complete
Elias Lönnrot · English
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PREFACE The following translation was undertaken from a desire to lay before the English-speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A brief description of this peculiar people, and of their ethical, linguistic, social, and religious life, seems to be called for here in order that the following poem may be the better understood. Finland (Finnish, Suomi or Suomenmaa, the swampy region, of which
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