Links to Kalevala resources in many different languages.
How Finnish-Karelian oral poetry became a symbol of national consciousness.
Virtual Finland's introduction to Elias Lönnrot's epic and its influence on Finnish arts and culture.
Brief information about the collection of lyrics and ballads created as a companion work to the Kalevala.
A short introduction to the epic and Kalevala-inspired art.
A society that aims to revive the Kalevala meter. Rules of the trochaic tetrameter in English.
An information center for the Kalevala and Karelian culture.
A complete English translation from 1888, cross-linked to the Finnish text.
1888 English translation by John Martin Crawford. In plain text, or as a zip file, at Project Gutenberg.
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