Directory of Kalevala Resources

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Kalevala is the Finnish national epic published by Elias Lönnrot in 1835 and 1849. It is a collection of fifty cantos based on Finnish-Karelian oral poetry.

Resources in This Category

• Juminkeko

  http://www.juminkeko.fi/en/
  An information center for the Kalevala and Karelian culture.

• Kalevalaisen Runokielen Seura (KaRuSe)

  http://www.karuse.info/
  A society that aims to revive the Kalevala meter. Rules of the trochaic tetrameter in English.

• The Kalevala

  http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/kveng/index.htm
  A complete English translation from 1888, cross-linked to the Finnish text.

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