Word: kalevala
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Friberg, who was born in Finland, has written several plays based on Finnish folklore. He is presently working on an English translation of the Kalevala, a 23,000-line Finnish epic...
...lake glittered under a westering sun and in the meadow close at hand peasants were reaping golden rye. In Finland the age of myth and legend is still just around the corner and doors stand open to the great winds which blow from the past out of the Kalevala, the Sagas and the Edda. Let me give you an idea of how close it is. That evening these same peasants were cooking their supper over a fire of twigs on a raised, open hearth. The hearth was like the one you see on the stage in Act I of Wagner...