by Elias Lönnrot · Rinoceronte Editora · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788492866977
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The Kalevala is a Finnish national epic compiled by Elias Lönnrot. First published in 1835, this work compiles Finnish folk pieces and has become a symbol of Finnish culture, language, and identity. The edition translated into Galician is an initiative to connect Galician culture with that of Northern Europe, offering the first edition in this language.
Elias Lönnrot was a Finnish polymath, physician, philosopher, poet, musician, linguist, journalist, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry. He is best known for synthesizing the Finnish national epic, Kalevala from short ballads and lyric poems he gathered from Finnish oral tradition during several field expeditions in Finland, Russian Karelia, the Kola Peninsula and Baltic countries. In botany, he is remembered as the author of the 1860 Flora Fennica, the first scientific text written in Finnish rather than in Latin.
