Kalevala

Name: Kalevala
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ISBN: 9780192835703

ISBN-10: 019283570X

ISBN-13: 9780192835703

Edition: N/A

Authors: Elias Lï¿½nnrot, Keith Bosley, Elias Lonnrot

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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 Lnnrot, who took `dictation' from the performance of a folk singer, in much the same way as our great collections from the past, from Homeric poems to medieval…

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List price: $15.95
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/13/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 736
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 1.77" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English