Kanteletar
by Elias Lönnrot
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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 show more hilarious account of a dragon that refuses to devour its victims. show lessTags
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- Canonical title*
- Kanteletar
- Original title
- Kanteletar elikkä Suomen kansan vanhoja lauluja ja virsiä
- Original publication date
- 1840
- Original language
- Finnish
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- Genres
- Poetry, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 894.54110408 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages Literatures of Altaic, Uralic, Hyperborean, Dravidian languages; literatures of miscellaneous languages of south Asia Finno-Ugric languages Finnic languages Finnish Finnish poetry Lyric, ballads
- LCC
- PH329 .A33 — Language and Literature Uralic languages. Basque language Uralic. Basque Finnish
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- 8 — English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Multiple languages, Norwegian (Nynorsk)
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- Paper, Ebook
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- 14
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