Arhippa Perttunen

Arhippa Perttunen (Russian: Архип Иванович Перттунен; Ladvozero village, now a part of the Republic of Karelia 1769 – c. 1841) was a Karelian folk singer.

Around 1834, he met Elias Lönnrot, and was one of his main sources for the Kalevala.

The State Prize of the Karelian ASSR was named after him.

Literature

• Saarinen, Jukka (2018). Runolaulun poetiikka: Säe, syntaksi ja parallelismi Arhippa Perttusen runoissa [The poetics of oral poetry: verse structure, syntax, and parallelism in the texts of Arhippa Perttunen] (Ph.D. thesis) (in Finnish). University of Helsinki. ISBN 978-951-51-3918-4. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |laysummary= ignored (help)