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The Kalevala: An Epic Poem after Oral Tradition by Elias Lonnrot (Oxford World's Classics)
The Kalevala An Epic Poem after Oral Tradition by Elias Lonnrot - Oxford World's Classics
Author: Elias Lonnrot, Elias Lonnrot
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199538867
ISBN-10: 0199538867
Publication Date: 2/15/2009
Pages: 736
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Paperback
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