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Bookshelf: The Kalevala

Posted on November 14, 2011 by David

Following up on Friday’s comments dialog: the Kalevala is the national epic of Finland. It looks at first glance like it might be a single unified poem, a la Homer, but is in fact a family of sung poems about … Continue reading →

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