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That said, Kalevala is a fantastic source for RPG type stuff: spells, creatures, characters, adventure hooks and situations. Great evocative poetry - it's very Tolkein-esque. Great for any campaign set in a woodland setting.

Point of order! Tolkien is Kalevala-esque!

He cribbed much of his writings off it. He was a big fan of all the Scandinavian traditional stuff and freely borrowed from them all of course.
He found the lack of a similar British set of stories bothersome which is why he ended up inventing something himself to fill the gap.

Also look at that Olaus Magnus map I posted for the archers on skis, ice skates and war-reindeer and so forth.

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Don't forget his "companion book to" the map. "Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Desc...rthern_Peoples