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- Author(s): Hong, Karen E.
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Faces. Jul2009, Vol. 25 Issue 9, p36-37. 2p. 1 Color Photograph.
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The article focuses on the importance of rune singers in passing the skills of traditional poetic singing in Finland. Poetic singing is composed of ancient stories and folk poems which have existed before the Finnish language was written. The traditional poetry is sang with the accompaniment of kantele, an ancient Finnish stringed instrument.
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