Lönnrot

[len-rot, -root, lœn-rawt]

noun

1. Elias 1802–84, Finnish scholar and editor.

Example Sentences

Actually, the guy behind the code name is Edmund Xavier Lonnrot, a funny sixth-grader.

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They enlist the help of sixth-grader Edmund Xavier Lonnrot, code name “Eddie Red.”

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As the enigmatic and androgynous figure known as Lonnrot tells Neith: “The truth is rotational; it is a pattern of responses arranged around a core. As one uncovers one answer, it vanishes away to reveal another . . . until the whole is visible at one time and is revealed to be quite different from what was suggested by the individual parts.”

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And, most tantalizing of all, why does Lonnrot ask, “How long ago do you think Diana Hunter’s interrogation started?”

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Half a century earlier, Elias Lonnrot, a country doctor, had collected old Finnish ballads, songs and incantations memorized and handed down by word of mouth for generations.

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