The poem tells the story of the eponymous character and his wife Minnehaha.
The author described it as an Edda and he wrote it in the same meter as the Kalevala. The protagonist's grandmother Nokomis bore his mother after a star fell to the sky, and the most famous extract is usually published as the title character's childhood (*) which is the name of Book III of the original work. The poem tells the story of the eponymous character and his wife Minnehaha. Beginning with the lines "By the shores of Gitche Gumee / By the shining Big-Sea-Water", FTP, identify this epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
The author described it as an Edda and he wrote it in the same meter as the Kalevala.
“The {Song of Hiawatha”}