The Epic Poem of Finland

Kalevala or Kalewala can be interpreted as the land of Kaleva or Kalevia. Currently this vast region is divided between the Russian Republic of Karelia, the Russian Leningrad Oblast and Finland - specifically the regions of north and south Karelia. Much of Finnish poetry was of the oral tradition. But Kalevala is a national and unifying poem. The authors of the work are numerous and stretch back almost countless centuries but, important additions and structuring are most notably from the ei...