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From the Back Cover:
The national folk epic of Finland is here presented in an English translation that is both scholarly and eminently readable. The lyrical passages and poetic images, the wry humor, the tall-tale extravagance, and the homely realism of the 'Kaevala' come through with extraordinary effectiveness.
About the Author:
Elias Lönnrot was a Finnish country doctor born in 1802. During 20 years spent working in a remote part of eastern Finland, Lönnrot collected fragments of folk tales and poetry which he believed formed a continuous epic. He undertook 11 field trips on a quest to gather as much material as he could, partly funded by the Finnish Literary Society, of which he was a founding member. The result was the Kalevala, first published in 1835. Lönnrot continued to collect material, eventually bringing out the version we know today in 1849. It consists of 22,795 verses, divided into 50 songs. Lönnrot became a professor of Finnish language and literature at the University of Helsinki in 1853. His work paved the way for the development of modern Finnish literature and promoted Finnish as the national language over Swedish. From 1866 he worked on the 14-year-long task of compiling the first Finnish–Swedish dictionary which contained over 200,000 entries. Horatio Clare is the author of Running for the Hills.
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- PublisherBiblioLife
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0554303574
- ISBN 13 9780554303574
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages552
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