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    belt asteroid 2243 Lönnrot was named after Lönnrot. Ellen Kushner's short fantasy story 'The Threefold World' features Elias Lönnrot as the protagonist...
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    [ˈkɑleʋɑlɑ]) is a 19th-century compilation of epic poetry, compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology, telling an epic...
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    Elias Lönnrot is a monument in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, by a Finnish sculptor Emil Wikström, unveiled in 1902. The bronze and granite monument...
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    actor Elias Lianos, Greek businessman Elias Lindholm (born 1994), Swedish ice hockey player Elias Lönnrot (1802–1884), Finnish philologist Elias Loomis...
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  • England: likely major influences upon Tolkien were the Brothers Grimm and Elias Lönnrot, who shaped mythologies for their countries. Dimitra Fimi writes that...
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    important 'awakeners' or promoters of Finnish nationalism, alongside Elias Lönnrot and J. L. Runeberg. Snellman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the son...
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    Finnish folklore and the main character in the national epic Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot. Väinämöinen was described as an old and wise man, and he possessed...
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    to study and improve Ahrens's Estonian liturgical language. In 1844, Elias Lönnrot, the author of the Kalevala, met with Ahrens in Kuusalu. This visit...
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  • eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM". Verlyn Flieger wrote that Elias Lönnrot intentionally created the Kalevala as a mythology for Finland, giving...
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    rosetti (rosette). The Finnish word sima is an old name for honey, which Elias Lönnrot used to mean a drink in his epic poetry, the Kalevala. Mead was originally...
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