Lönnrot
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
The greatest of the scholars engaged in the subsequent work of arranging and classifying was Doctor Lönnrot.
From Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn by Hearn, Lafcadio
Dr. Lönnrot is said to have handled with singular fidelity the materials which now come before us as one poem, not absolutely without a certain unity and continuous thread of narrative.
From Custom and Myth 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
The whole may have been made first by Lönnrot.
From Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn by Hearn, Lafcadio
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