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Kalevala is a pretty extraordinary text. If you’re looking for an epub of the same translation I put one together for SE last year.[1] The Crawford translation
by robin_reala 4y ago
Kalevala is a pretty extraordinary text. If you’re looking for an epub of the same translation I put one together for SE last year.[1] The Crawford translation was the most lyrical I could find.
It’s also worth reading up on Lönnrot’s linguistic / ethnological expeditions that he made to compile the text.[2]
[1] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/elias-lonnrot/the-kalevala/john-martin-crawford https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/elias-lonnrot/the-kalevala...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_L%C3%B6nnrot#Linguistics_work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_L%C3%B6nnrot#Linguistics...
- juki 4y agoAlso, for those who speak Finnish, the materials that Lönnrot and others gathered are nowadays freely available online at the Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot database: https://skvr.fi/ https://skvr.fi/