Note 895 — Chapter VI · SCIENCE AND COMMUNAL POETRY
Reading edition
Comparetti, Kalewala, 1892. pp. 3, 264 ff. The very name of the Finnish song is probably borrowed; but its original and native character is successfully defended by Comparetti, pp. 37, 272, against the attempt of Ahlqvist to prove alliteration in Finnish verse a loan from the Scandinavians.