Editing Kalevala (section)

====Re-tellings====
Finnish cartoonist Kristian Huitula illustrated a comic book adaptation of the ''Kalevala''. The ''Kalevala Graphic Novel'' contains the storyline of all the 50 chapters in original text form.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huitula.com/kalevala2|title=The Art of Huitula – The Kalevala Comic Book (The Kalevala Graphic Novel)|access-date=31 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110712230826/http://www.huitula.com/kalevala2|archive-date=12 July 2011}}</ref>

Finnish cartoonist and children's writer [[Mauri Kunnas]] wrote and illustrated {{langnf|fi|Koirien Kalevala|The Canine Kalevala|links=no}}. The story is that of the ''Kalevala'', with the characters presented as [[Anthropomorphism|anthropomorphised]] dogs, wolves and cats. The story deviates from the full ''Kalevala'' to make the story more appropriate for children.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.maurikunnas.net/mauri_kunnas/teokset/translations/en_GB/the_canine_kalevala/|title=Mauri Kunnas, The Canine Kalevala – (Koirien Kalevala)|access-date=18 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101107193303/http://www.maurikunnas.net/mauri_kunnas/teokset/translations/en_GB/the_canine_kalevala/|archive-date=7 November 2010}}</ref>

In the late 1950s, students from the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama performed excerpts from the Kalevala in a presentation to the poet laureate John Masefield at Oxford. Some images from this presentation can be viewed [https://catalogue.bruford.ac.uk/kalevala online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702171227/https://catalogue.bruford.ac.uk/kalevala |date=2 July 2023 }}.

The ''Kalevala'' inspired the American [[Disney]] cartoonist [[Don Rosa]] to draw a [[Donald Duck]] (who is himself a popular character in Finland) story based on the ''Kalevala'', called ''[[The Quest for Kalevala]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/public/default.asp?t=1&m=1&c=34&s=265&ai=47103&ssd=9/25/2004&arch=y|title=Don Rosa and The Quest for Kalevala|access-date=18 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101012041920/http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/public/default.asp?t=1&m=1&c=34&s=265&ai=47103&ssd=9%2F25%2F2004&arch=y|archive-date=12 October 2010}}</ref> The comic was released on the 150th anniversary of the ''Kalevala''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yle.fi/elavaarkisto/?s=s&a=2128|title=Don Rosan Kalevala-ankat|access-date=22 August 2010}}</ref>