The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country

Note 61 — CANTO XII

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This reminds us of the help given to Hiawatha by the woodpecker during his fight with Megissogwun; but the one incident can hardly be copied from the other. Hiawatha was published some years before the Kalevipoeg.

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