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The Kanteletar: Lyrics and Ballads After the Oral Tradition by Elias Lönnrot

The Kanteletar: Lyrics and Ballads After the Oral Tradition by Elias Lönnrot

Bosley, Keith
Lönnrot, Elias

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Series: The ^Aworld's Classics

Literary Criticism

Publisher Price: $9.95

ISBN10: 0192828622
ISBN13: 9780192828620
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: Apr 2 1992
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.44 Width: 4.67 Depth: 7.38
Language: English
This is the first appearance in English of The Kanteletar (1840-1), the companion volume to the Finnish national epic poem The Kalevala. Based on Finnish oral tradition, The Kanteletar (roughly zither-daughter, a kind of muse) is a selection from a treasury of nearly seven hundred lyrics and ballads that celebrate the everyday life of a rural society at work and play. The ballads range from a beautiful sequence of legends about the Virgin Mary, through the grim tales of Elina, to a hilarious account of a dragon that refuses to devour its victims.

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