Kalevala
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The Kalevala is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology, telling an epic story about the Creation of the Earth, describing the controversies and retaliatory voyages between the peoples of the land of Kalevala called Väinölä and the land of Pohjola and their various protagonists and antagonists, as well as the construction and robbery of the epic mythical wealth-making machine Sampo.
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See also
- Finnish mythology
- Mythologia Fennica
- Finnish national symbols
- Kalevi (mythology)
- Kalevipoeg, an Estonian epic poetry inspired by the Kalevala
- Kanteletar, a sister collection of the Kalevala
- Kojiki, a mythological text similarly compiled and edited from oral transmission
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