{"database": "deitydb", "table": "sources", "rows": [["SRC_KALEVALA", "Elias L\u00f6nnrot, The Kalevala (Kalevala taikka vanhoja Karjalan runoja Suomen kansan muinosista ajoista), expanded edition 1849; trans. Keith Bosley (Oxford World's Classics, Oxford University Press, 1989)", null, "primary text", "The national epic of Finland, compiled by Elias L\u00f6nnrot from oral folk poetry (runo-songs) collected mainly from Karelia between 1828 and 1834, with an expanded edition in 1849 (50 cantos / runos, ~22,795 verses). The oral tradition underlying the Kalevala is far older, preserving pre-Christian Finnish and Karelian religious material; the earliest layer of the runo-song tradition is estimated to the Iron Age or earlier. The Kalevala is the primary source for Finnish mythology: it presents the creation of the world from a cosmic egg (Runo 1, Ilmatar), the shaman-bard V\u00e4in\u00e4m\u00f6inen as the central culture hero, the forest deity Tapio and his wife Mielikki (Runo 14, 32, 46), the sea deity Ahti/Ahto (Runo 42-49), the thunder deity Ukko (Runo 2, 47), and the antagonist Louhi, mistress of the northern realm Pohjola (Runos 5-8, 10-11, 30-38, 42-49). Keith Bosley's Oxford translation (1989) is the standard modern English edition. Primary citation for all Finnish entities in this layer."]], "columns": ["source_id", "title", "url", "source_type", "scope"], "primary_keys": ["source_id"], "primary_key_values": ["SRC_KALEVALA"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 3.572862000510213, "source": "jebboone/deitydb", "source_url": "https://github.com/jebboone/deitydb", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT"}