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20%OFFElias Lönnrot - The Kalevala - 9780199538867 - V9780199538867
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The Kalevala

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Description for The Kalevala paperback. Translator(s): Bosley, Keith. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 736 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 44. Weight in Grams: 498.
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 Lönnrot, who took `dictation' from the performance of a folk ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
OUP Oxford
Number of pages
736
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Weight
504g
Number of Pages
736
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199538867
SKU
V9780199538867
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About Elias Lönnrot
Keith Bosley is the author of Finnish Folk Poetry: Epic and was awarded the first Finnish State Prize for translators.

Reviews for The Kalevala
an unread masterpiece...The translator, Mr Bosley, is an English poet and knows the Finnish language, accomplishments which few can rival...try this book; you will not be disappointed.
The Spectator
Keith Bosley's Kalevala is a poet's translation, impressive for its stylistic daring, its taste and its scholarly awareness and for the sheer pleasure it gives. The zest and energy ... Read more

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