The 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 the basis of the Kalevala. It was assembled in
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Bring Out the Accordions is Douglas Hergert's third collection of essays, originally written for the Rossmoor retirement community of Walnut Creek, California. In these pages you'll read about people, books, food, and memories.
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