sources: SRC_KALEVALA

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SRC_KALEVALA Elias Lönnrot, 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)   primary text The national epic of Finland, compiled by Elias Lönnrot 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 Väinämöinen 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.

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