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The Kalevala: Or Poems of the Kaleva District by Elias Lonnrot (Compiled By), Francis Peabody Magoun (Translator), Liah Kalevala Paperback, 440 Pages, Published 1985 ISBN-10: 0-674-50010-5 / 0674500105 ISBN-13: 978-0-674-50010-5 / 9780674500105 The national folk epic of Finland is here presented in an English translation that is both scholarly and eminently readable. To avoid the imprecision and metrical monotony of earlier verse translations, Francis Magoun has used prose, printed line for line as in the original so that repetitions, para |