print email comment close Kalevala: The Finnish National Epic URL: http://virtual.finland.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=27015 Description: Background about this epic poem, "the first edition of ... [which] appeared in 1835, compiled and edited by Elias Lönnrot on the basis of the epic folk poems he had collected in Finland and Karelia." The site provides an overview of the poem and discusses songs behind the Kalevala, Finnish culture at the beginning of the 19th century, and Kalevala in modern Finland. From Virtual Finland, produced by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. Author: Asplund, Anneli Publisher: Virtual Finland Extra Keywords Lonnrot LII Database Information: Record 23872 created by Maria Brandt on 05/17/2007 Last modification on 05/23/2007 Published: 05/23/2007   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/23872