Religion, Myth, and Folklore in the World's Epics : The Kalevala and Its Predecessors : Religion and Society 30
25: Mouton De Gruyter, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A huge collection of essays on the Finnish national epic Kalevala, and its models like Homeric Epics, Virgil's Aeneid, Eddic Poetry, Nibelungenlied, and its points of comparison in Europe, Africa and Asia. Etc. Writers include Lauri Honko, Minna Skafte Jensen, Teivas Oksala, Lars Lönnroth, Hans Fromm, Derick Thomson, Matti Kuusi, Väinö Kaukonen, Pirkko Alhoniemi, Vilmos Voigt, Eduard Laugaste, Felix J. Oinas, David E. Bynum, Péter Domokos, Rudolf Schenda, Jan Knappert, Christiane Seydou, Micheline Galley, Jaan Puhvel, Walther Heissig, Jam-dpal rgyal-mtsho, Silke Herrmann, Jia Zhi, Taryo Obayashi and Eino Karhu. Still sealed in plastic. In English. 587 pp. New. Item #497
ISBN: 0899256252
Price: $220.00