Topelius
Americannoun
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But the Kalevala proper was collected by two great Finnish scholars of our own century, Zacharias Topelius and Elias Lönnrot.
From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar
Although scholars saw that these collected poems were evidently fragments of a Finnish epic, it remained for two physicians, Zacharias Topelius and Elias Lönnrot, to collect the entire poem.
From National Epics by Rabb, Kate Milner
Topelius, though confined to his bed by illness for eleven years, took down the songs from travelling merchants brought to his bedside.
From National Epics by Rabb, Kate Milner
Topelius, who collected eighty epical fragments of the Kalevala, spent the last eleven years of his life in bed, afflicted with a fatal disease.
From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar
Topelius and Lönnrot were conscientious collectors and compilers, but they were no Homers, who could fuse these disconnected runes into one great poem.
From National Epics by Rabb, Kate Milner
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