{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Context XXI","provider_url":"http:\/\/contextxxi.org","title":"Sortavala \u2013 the town where the Kalevala started\n","author_name":"Amelie Lanier","width":"1200","height":"800","url":"https:\/\/licra.contextxxi.org\/sortavala-the-town-where-the.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/licra.contextxxi.org\/sortavala-the-town-where-the.html'\u003ESortavala \u2013 the town where the Kalevala started\n\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003EWell. it wasn\u2019t really made here, as the Kalevala \u2013 the book of legends of the Finn people \u2013 is the result of the collection of popular tales that were told\/sung in the villages by the bards, who accompanied it with a kind of cithera, the kantele.\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut though Sortavala generally isn\u2019t linked too much with the creation of the Kalevala, its author, Elias L\u00f6nnrot who collected these legends and edited them as the ’Kalevala’, started his collection trips into Karelia from Sortavala \u003Ca href=\"..\/sortavala-the-town-where-the.html\" class=' pts_suite'\u003E(...)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}