Editing National myth (section)

===Finland===
The ''[[Kalevala]]'' is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by [[Elias Lönnrot]] from [[Karelian language|Karelian]] and [[Finnish language|Finnish]] oral [[folklore]] and [[Finnish mythology|mythology]],.<ref name="Overview">{{cite web|last=Asplund|first=Anneli|url=http://finland.fi/public/default.aspx?contentid=160078&contentlan=2&culture=en-US|access-date=15 August 2010|title=Kalevala: the Finnish national epic|author2=Sirkka-Liisa Mettom|date=October 2000|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101123171927/http://finland.fi/public/default.aspx?contentid=160078&contentlan=2&culture=en-US|archive-date=23 November 2010}}</ref>  The ''Kalevala'' is regarded as the [[national epic]] of [[Karelia]] and [[Finland]]{{refn|Professor Tolkien disagreed with this characterization: "One repeatedly hears the 'Land of Heroes' described as the 'national Finnish Epic': as if a nation, besides if possible a national bank theatre and government, ought also automatically to possess a national epic. Finland does not. The K[alevala] is certainly not one. It is a mass of conceivably epic material; but, and I think this is the main point, it would lose nearly all that which is its greatest delight if it were ever to be epically handled."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Tolkien |first1=J.R.R. |author-link1=J.R.R. Tolkien |editor1-last=Flieger |editor1-first=Verlyn |editor1-link=Verlyn Flieger|title=The Story of Kullervo |date=2015 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |location=Boston |isbn=978-0-544-70626-2 |page=70 |edition=1st US |ref=JRRT |chapter=On 'The Kalevala' or Land of Heroes}}</ref>|group=note}} 
It narrates an epic story about the [[Creation myth|Creation of the Earth]], describing the controversies and retaliatory voyages between the peoples of the land of Kalevala called Väinölä and the land of [[Pohjola]] and their various protagonists and antagonists as well as the construction and robbery of the epic mythical wealth-making machine [[Sampo]].<ref>[https://www.finnwards.com/living-in-finland/kalevala-the-national-epic-of-finland/ Kalevala, the national epic of Finland – Finnwards]</ref> The ''Kalevala'' was instrumental in the development of the [[Finnish national identity]] and the intensification of [[Finland's language strife]] that ultimately led to [[Finland's Declaration of Independence|Finland's independence from Russia]] in 1917.<ref name="The Role of The Kalevala">{{cite web|last=Vento|first=Urpo|url=http://www.njas.helsinki.fi/pdf-files/vol1num2/vento.pdf|access-date=17 August 2010|title=The Role of The Kalevala|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716165757/http://www.njas.helsinki.fi/pdf-files/vol1num2/vento.pdf|archive-date=16 July 2011}}</ref><ref>William A. Wilson (1975) "The Kalevala and Finnish Politics" ''Journal of the Folklore Institute'' 12(2/3): pp. 131–55</ref>