Finland’s poetic masterpiece, the Kalevala, has roots in two cultures and two countries. First published in 1835, the epic spans nearly 23,000 lines. Now, nearly 200 years later, those “luckless lands of the North” have become an increasingly tense border zone.
https://theconversation.com/an-epic-border-finlands-poetic-masterpiece-the-kalevala-has-roots-in-2-cultures-and-2-countries-261444