Elias Lönnrot's The Kalevala is a 19th-century epic poem compiled from Finnish and Karelian oral folklore and mythology. It is regarded as the national epic of Finland and has significantly influenced Finnish national identity and culture.
Sources for Elias Lönnrot (compiler) — The Kalevala
Elias Lönnrot (compiler) — The Kalevala in Epics
Held in the Epics chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Homer — The Iliad (−750)
- Homer — The Odyssey (−725)
- Epic of Gilgamesh (−2100)
- Virgil — The Aeneid (−19)
- Beowulf (anonymous, Old English) (1000)
- Vyasa (attrib.) — The Mahabharata (−400)
- Valmiki (attrib.) — The Ramayana (−500)
- Luo Guanzhong — Romance of the Three Kingdoms (San Kuo) (1400)
- Ferdowsi — Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (1010)
- Apollonius of Rhodes — The Argonautica (Jason and the Golden Fleece) (−250)
- Statius — The Thebaid (Seven Against Thebes) (92)
- Snorri Sturluson — The Prose Edda (1220)
- The Poetic Edda (anonymous, Old Norse) (1270)
- The Saga of the Volsungs (1270)
- Táin Bó Cúailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley) (1100)
- The Arabian Nights (One Thousand and One Nights) (1450)
- The Book of Dede Korkut (1300)