Spreading the Written Word: Mikael Agricola and the Birth of Literary Finnish by Kaisa Häkkinen

Spreading the Written Word: Mikael Agricola and the Birth of Literary Finnish

Kaisa Häkkinen

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The arrival of the Reformation was the decisive impetus for literary development in Finland. The principle of Lutheranism was that the people had to get to hear and read the word of God in their own mother tongue. If there previously was no litera...

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