Lönnrot
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Lönnrot travelled over the whole country, on horseback, in reindeer sledges and in canoes, collecting the old poems and songs from the hunters, the fishermen and the shepherds.
From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar
Elias Lönnrot spent a long and busy life collecting those ancient runos from which he succeeded in building up a national epic, the Kalevala.
From Mighty Mikko A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by Fillmore, Parker
Lönnrot collected these, and tried by interpolations to make an epic out of them; but the point, as Comparetti has proved, is that he failed.
From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew
This is perfectly true; much as Lönnrot botched and vamped the Finnish lays he made no epic out of them.
From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew
Lönnrot travelled over Finland, collecting the songs, which he published, arranged in epical form, in 1835.
From National Epics by Rabb, Kate Milner
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