Kalevala or the Finnish National Epic

Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.
From Lang’s fundamental essay Custom and Myth, published in 1884, we have drawn the study Kalevala, or the Finnish National Epic, which today we propose to modern readers.
The Kalevala is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lön...