From: Derek Bell <dbell@maths.tcd.ie>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Kalevala
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 20:13:49 +0100


[Posted from WHORL, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]

In message <199707011247.FAA00431@lists1.best.com>, RRHMAH@aol.com writes:
>[Posted from WHORL, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]
>In a message dated 97-07-01 03:22:55 EDT, Mantis writes:
>> And
>>  a trilogy based upon the (modern synthetic) Scandinavian (Finnish?)
>>  epic poem that starts with a "K"(?)
>The poem is the Kalevala.  The books are by Ian Watson.

	As an aside, I think Tolkien used the Kalevala as the basis
for the tale of Turam Turambar(?) in the Silmarillion.

	Derek