The Kalevala Fiction_Gift_Guide Touching and powerful

Touching and powerful

The pioneers of beer-making are the subjects of biographical entries

and a doctor who makes house calls with his wine merchant in tow

sexual violence

her parents discovered what was at the heart of Greta’s distress: her imperiled future on a rapidly heating planet

The Kalevala Fiction_Gift_Guide Touching and powerfulThe Kalevala is the great Finnish epic, which like the Iliad and the Odyssey, grew out of a rich oral tradition with prehistoric roots. During the first millennium of our era, speakers of Uralic languages (those outside the Indo European group) who had settled in the Baltic region of Karelia, that straddles the border of eastern Finland and north west Russia, developed an oral poetry that was to last into the nineteenth century. This poetry provided