Feb. 28th: Kalevala Day in Finland
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5 min readMar 1
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Finnish Culture Day.
On February 28, 1835, linguist Elias Lönnrot was putting the finishing touches on his life’s work, the manuscript he’d been researching with a team of assistants for many years — The Kalevala. This definitive collection of Finland’s myths and legends — compiled from stories dictated from the common people across the rural countryside — ultimately amounted to 22,000…
