Lönnrot
Americannoun
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A national feeling has lately arisen amongst the Finns, despite of Russian supremacy, and the labors of Sjögern, Lönnrot, Castrén, and Kellgren, receiving hence a powerful impulse, have produced results truly surprising.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max
Lönnrot was probably, almost certainly, the only one who had even understood the idea of an epic of this kind.
From Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn by Hearn, Lafcadio
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
In the task of arranging and uniting these, Dr. Lönnrot played the part traditionally ascribed to the commission of Pisistratus in relation to the ‘Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey.’
From Custom and Myth by Lang, Andrew
Beside the material for the Kalevala Lönnrot made important collections of lyrics, proverbs, and stories.
From Mighty Mikko A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by Fillmore, Parker
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