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Kalevipoeg, a great European epic

By Jüri Talvet
ELM 2/2003
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On the bicentenary of birth of Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald,the author of Kalevipoeg and the founder of Estonian literatureFriedrich Reinh...

Finnish Kalevala and Estonian Kalevipoeg

By Jaan Puhvel
ELM 2/2003
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But they were no longer alone. While the belated fallout of the enlightenment in Western Europe triggered the end of serfdom, it was instea...