The Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland into English

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Thank you for exploring this title from Theophania Publishing. We value your support and are eager to assist you further. With thousands of titles available, we encourage you to search for us by name, visit our website, or download our latest catalogues. This translation aims to present the rich epical beauty, folklore, and mythology of The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns, to English-speaking audiences. To enhance understanding of the poem, a brief overview of the Finnish people, including their ethical, linguistic, social, and religious life, is essential. The Finns are an ancient group, noted for their early efforts to collect and preserve folklore. Tacitus, in the early second century, referred to them as the Fenni, describing them as wild and impoverished, lacking arms and horses, subsisting on herbs, and living in basic conditions. They relied on bone-tipped arrows in the absence of iron. Strabo and Ptolemy also documented this intriguing culture, which once spread across significant parts of Europe and western Asia.