- Published: 30 November 2017
- ISBN: 9781473549111
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 704
Kalevala
Formats & editions
- Published: 30 November 2017
- ISBN: 9781473549111
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 704
Did so much to bolster early Finnish nationalism on the road to independence
Guardian
The Kalevala , the 19th-century folk epic that crystallised national resistance to Russian rule, was compiled by Elias Lonnrot from ancient runes sung from memory in the eastern forests of Karelia. The Kalevala inspired not only Sibelius but JRR Tolkien, whose Middle Earth and elfin tongue tapped Finnish myths and language
Guardian
I was immensely attracted by something in the air of the Kalevala
Tolkien to W.H. Auden in 1955
One of the great mythic poems of Europe
New York Times