This is a side-by-side translation of the Kalevala into English using Project Gutenberg texts. Any revenues made are given to Project Gutenburg.
This book was originally assembled by Dustin (myself) for his mom Laila Rahnasto as a Christmas present in 2010. Here I have assembled a side-by-side English and Finnish version of The Kalevala, the national epic of Finland. There are a few English translations of the Kalevala, but I decided to use W.F. KirbyÕs, as it is the most literal. It is accepted in translation that there is a tension between literal translation and poetic beauty; it is hard to do both simultaneously. I have used W.F. KirbyÕs as I wanted the lines in each part of the poem to roughly line up. Some sections are off by 1 or 2 lines. The notes at the end refer to lines in the poem by number, but I found it too difficult to include them. It turned out to be harder than it was worth.