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Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot (Ancient Poems of the Finnish People)
Finnish Literature Society (SKS), eds. · 1908-1948; 1997 · Finnish and Karelian
Scholarship
Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot (Ancient Poems of the Finnish People)
Finnish Literature Society (SKS), eds.
The 34-volume scholarly edition of the Kalevala-metre runo-songs collected in Finland, Karelia, and Ingria from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, about 89,000 texts, now searchable online. It is the evidence behind the Kalevala, showing the variants Lönnrot chose among.
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The 34-volume scholarly edition of the Kalevala-metre runo-songs collected in Finland, Karelia, and Ingria from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, about 89,000 texts, now searchable online. It is the evidence behind the Kalevala, showing the variants Lönnrot chose among.
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