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    belt asteroid 2243 Lönnrot was named after Lönnrot. Ellen Kushner's short fantasy story 'The Threefold World' features Elias Lönnrot as the protagonist...
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    [ˈkɑleʋɑlɑ]) is a 19th-century compilation of epic poetry, compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology, telling an epic...
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    Elias Lönnrot is a monument in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, by a Finnish sculptor Emil Wikström, unveiled in 1902. The bronze and granite monument...
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    Italian, English Elias Norwegian Elías Icelandic Éliás Hungarian Elías Spanish Eliáš, Elijáš Czech Elijah, Elia, Ilyas, Elias Indonesian Elias, Eelis, Eljas...
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    important 'awakeners' or promoters of Finnish nationalism, alongside Elias Lönnrot and J. L. Runeberg. Snellman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the son...
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  • England: likely major influences upon Tolkien were the Brothers Grimm and Elias Lönnrot, who shaped mythologies for their countries. Dimitra Fimi writes that...
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    activity was to study and improve Estonian liturgical language. In 1844, Elias Lönnrot, the author of the Kalevala, met with Ahrens in Kuusalu. This visit...
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    Finnish folklore and the main character in the national epic Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot. Väinämöinen was described as an old and wise man, and he possessed...
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  • eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM". Verlyn Flieger wrote that Elias Lönnrot intentionally created the Kalevala as a mythology for Finland, giving...
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    from the Karelian and Finnish 19th century epic poetry Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot, curses beasts from the woods to attack his tormenter, the Maiden of...
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    rosetti (rosette). The Finnish word sima is an old name for honey, which Elias Lönnrot used to mean a drink in his epic poetry, the Kalevala. Mead was originally...
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    Kanteletar is a collection of Finnish folk poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot. It is considered to be a sister collection to the Finnish national epic Kalevala...
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    and infrastructure, and much of it remains wilderness. Finnish author Elias Lönnrot (1802-1884) collected most of the poems and materials for the epic poem...
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  • Pentikäinen, 1999, p. 8. Elias Lönnrot; John Martin Crawford (tr.) [1888]. Kalevala : the Epic Poem of Finland — Complete by Lönnrot and Crawford at Project...
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    published the first Swedish-Finnish dictionary, and between 1866 and 1880 Elias Lönnrot compiled the first Finnish-Swedish dictionary. In the same period, Antero...
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    the Great Depression. Elias Lönnrot; Rainer Knapas (2002), Vandraren : reseberättelser från Karelen 1828-1842 / Elias Lönnrot ; utgivna av Rainer Knapas...
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  • the Finnish language, which he especially liked, and the Kalevala, Elias Lönnrot's 19th century compilation of Finnish mythology, which Tolkien stated...
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    front of the Helsinki Central railway station and the monuments to Elias Lönnrot and Johan Vilhelm Snellman. His parents were construction foreman Johan...
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  • central character in Finnish folklore and the national epic Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot. Väinämöinen was described as an old and wise man, and he possessed...
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    Tolkien may have been intentionally imitating the philological style of Elias Lönnrot, compiler of the Finnish epic, the Kalevala; or of St Jerome, Snorri...
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    Finnish and Russian Karelia. Of his large and valuable collections, Elias Lönnrot received, among other things, the entire Kullervo section for the expanded...
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  • confusion with Ahti Saarelainen, the hero. In the Kalevala the compiler Elias Lönnrot conflated several mythological persons into the main characters in an...
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    a passage from the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic compiled by Elias Lönnrot in the 19th century. The scene portrayed is taken from the 43rd song...
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  • another name for the underworld, and seems to have been introduced by Elias Lönnrot, the compiler of Kalevala. Kalma's daughter, Kalman impi (lit. 'maiden...
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    Japan. The name Aino, meaning "the only one" in Finnish, was devised by Elias Lönnrot, who compiled, from surviving oral folk sources which he had collected...
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    influenced Elias Lönnrot, compiler of the epic Kalevala; as a result, Ganander has been later perceived as a kind of "Lönnrot before Lönnrot." Mythologia...
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    been something like the surviving Norse myths. He could not do what Elias Lönnrot did in Finland, for example: travel the countryside to gather folk tales...
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  • folksingers of her sex. She was a strong influence on Kanteletar by Elias Lönnrot. Mateli Magdalena Kuivalatar was born 8 May 1771, and her family belonged...
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  • Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (b. 1795) 1884 – Elias Lönnrot, Finnish physician and philologist (b. 1802) 1897 – Antoine Thomson...
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    Finnish. It was the birthplace of one of Finland's most famous writers, Elias Lönnrot, the compiler of the Kalevala. Prior to its consolidation into Lohja...
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