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Lönnrot's Kalevala
In 1835, the doctor Elias Lönnrot, working in Kajaani, published the Kalevala, an epic compiled from Finnish and Karelian runo songs about singers, smiths and the magic mill Sampo.
1835 CE · 64.23, 27.73 · status: official
The account
It preserved spells, birth-of-iron charms and the world of the tietäjä (seer) and became the cornerstone of Finnish identity.