The imagination indeed is of another race and another time than those to whose literary productions we have become accustomed.

But there is beauty here; and the strangeness of it indicates a possible literary value by which any literature may be more or less enriched.

Many are the particular episodes which rival the beauty and strangeness of the episode of Kullervo; and I wish that we could have time to quote them.

But I can only refer to them.
There is, for example, the legend of the invention of music, when the hero Wainamoinen (supposed to represent the Spirit of the Wind, and the sound of the name indicates the wailing of the wind) invents the first musical instrument.

In no other literature is there anything quite like this except in the Greek story of Orpheus.