Kalevala
Americannoun
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(italics) the national epic of Finland (1835, enlarged 1849), compiled and arranged by Elias Lönnrot from popular lays of the Middle Ages.
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the home or land of Kaleva; Finland.
noun
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the land of the hero Kaleva, who performed legendary exploits
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the Finnish national epic in which these exploits are recounted, compiled by Elias Lönnrot from folk poetry in 1835 to 1849
Etymology
Origin of Kalevala
From Finnish
Example Sentences
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Kalevala: Din takes Grogu to Kalevala, “another planet in the Mandalorian system.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
The great epic story of Finland, the Kalevala, was written by a Finnish intellectual in 1827; it was based on actual Finnish legends, but it had never existed as one long story before.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
Tolkien used numerous plot elements from the Kalevala in his own novels - a powerful magical object, incest, battles between brothers, and orphan heroes setting out on quests.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2015
Sibelius composed that work, his first in the symphonic genre, in 1892, using texts from the Kalevala, the Finnish epic poem compiled from myths, songs and folk tales.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2010
Even in the old songs of the Kalevala they speak of the "cleansing and healing vapours of the heated bath-room."
From Through Finland in Carts by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie
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