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The Kalevala the Epic Poem of Finland Translated into English

By: John Martin Crawford

...ars ago. The Finnish nation has one of the most sonorous and flex ible of languages. Of the cultivated tongues of Europe, the Magyar, or Hungarian, ... ... deep rooted similarity to the Finnish. Both belong to the Ugrian stock of agglutinative languages, i.e., those which preserve the root most carefully... ...imilarity to the Finnish. Both belong to the Ugrian stock of agglutinative languages, i.e., those which preserve the root most carefully, and effect a... ... some of the epics of India. It has been translated into several European languages; into Swedish by Alex. Castren, in 1844; into French prose by L. ... ...lover of his country, a scholar of great attainments, acquainted with many languages, and once at the head of the Imperial Mint at Helsingfors, the ca...

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