kalevala

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• - Brief information about the collection of lyrics and ballads created as a companion work to the Kalevala.
  
• - An information center for the Kalevala and Karelian culture.
  
• - A short introduction to the epic and Kalevala-inspired art.
  
• - Virtual Finland's introduction to Elias Lönnrot's epic and its influence on Finnish arts and culture.
  
• - A collection of essays published in 1987. One sample article available online.
  
• - How Finnish-Karelian oral poetry became a symbol of national consciousness.
  
• - 1888 English translation by John Martin Crawford. In plain text, or as a zip file, at Project Gutenberg.
  
• - A complete English translation from 1888, cross-linked to the Finnish text.
  
• - A society that aims to revive the Kalevala meter. Rules of the trochaic tetrameter in English.