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| | The Song of Hiawatha, an "Indian Kalevala" |
 | | In the Indian legend, Wenonah, daughter of Nokomis—who is the daughter of the moon—bears a son, Hiawatha, to the West Wind, Mudjekeewis. |
 | | Though some scholars disagree, Longfellow was, no doubt, influenced by the Finnish national epic, Kalevala, in creating his Song of Hiawatha, inasmuch the meter, form, and some of the legends and episodes in Hiawatha resemble very closely those in the Finnish epic. |
 | | The study of the relationship between The Song of Hiawatha and Kalevala has shown that Longfellow imitated the Finnish epic in his Indian Edda. |
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