Finnish Legends for English Children

Name: Finnish Legends for English Children
Author: R. Eivind

by R. Eivind

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Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Joe Longo and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2008-03-29

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Folklore -- Finland Kalevala -- Adaptations Legends -- Finland

About the author

R. Eivind

A late-19th-century reteller of Finnish folklore, this writer brought the world of the Kalevala to young English-language readers. The surviving record is thin, but the book still stands out for its warm wish to open a “new region in the fairy world” to children.

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