... As he worked his folk materials into what he imagined the original must have been, he produced the most successful constructed myth in modern literature, and one of the most successful of all time.
Recommended reading:
Kalevala at Reading Rat
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
'Kalevala'
Early in the last century he [Elias Lonnrot] began collecting the folk songs and narrative ballads of the peasantry, especially in the most remote regions — along the borders of Lapland, and in the forests of Karelia. ...
... As he worked his folk materials into what he imagined the original must have been, he produced the most successful constructed myth in modern literature, and one of the most successful of all time.--Kenneth Rexroth, The Kalevala, Classics Revisited (1968)
Recommended reading:
Kalevala at Reading Rat
... As he worked his folk materials into what he imagined the original must have been, he produced the most successful constructed myth in modern literature, and one of the most successful of all time.
Recommended reading:
Kalevala at Reading Rat
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