To: Old Sarge
Do you know of the Kalevala? It's a collection of old Finnish songs and verses or "Runes." Players of the kantele and sing runes from memory are known as "rune singers".
A Finnish country doctor Elias Lonnrot collected these songs and wrote them down, thus we have the Kalevala. He did this in early 19th century.
592 posted on
02/06/2004 8:30:22 PM PST by
Soaring Feather
(~ I do Poetry and Party among the stars~)
To: bentfeather
I know
of them, at any rate.The Norse traditions are more than just a fancy of mine.
I've got one manuscript, and two outlines for sequels.
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