An information center for the Kalevala and Karelian culture.

The official 150th anniversary site by the Finnish Literature Society. Events, publications and a list of translations and foreign-language adaptations of the Kalevala.

Links to Kalevala resources in many different languages.

A short introduction to the epic and Kalevala-inspired art.

Virtual Finland's introduction to Elias Lönnrot's epic and its influence on Finnish arts and culture.

How Finnish-Karelian oral poetry became a symbol of national consciousness.

A society that aims to revive the Kalevala meter. Rules of the trochaic tetrameter in English.

Brief information about the collection of lyrics and ballads created as a companion work to the Kalevala.

A complete English translation from 1888, cross-linked to the Finnish text.

1888 English translation by John Martin Crawford. In plain text, or as a zip file, at Project Gutenberg.

A collection of essays published in 1987. One sample article available online.