Elias Lonnrot

One of the great mythic poems of Europe

New York Times

I was immensely attracted by something in the air of the Kalevala

Tolkien to W.H. Auden in 1955

Did so much to bolster early Finnish nationalism on the road to independence

Guardian

I was immensely attracted by something in the air of the Kalevala

Tolkien to W.H. Auden in 1955

Did so much to bolster early Finnish nationalism on the road to independence

Guardian

One of the great mythic poems of Europe

New York Times

I was immensely attracted by something in the air of the Kalevala

Tolkien to W.H. Auden in 1955

Did so much to bolster early Finnish nationalism on the road to independence

Guardian