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The main point of Mikko Korhonen's article «The Early Historyà» is that several questions of the origin of the Kalevala metre have not yet been thoroughly studied from the aspect of historical linguistics. According to the commonly accepted argument the metrical systems used in language and folklore in particular have formed in accordance with the prosodic features of the language. Therefore, the consideration of scientific research in linguistic history has a significant role in the formation as well as the development of Kalevala metre. From the grounds of the historical prosody of languages and the characteristic features of folklore Mikko Korhonen views the arguments of several earlier researchers in a new light and argues that the metre of ancient songs of the Finnnish people cannot have the same origin as the syllable metres of Mordvin, that it is not of Baltic origin or the result of Baltic influence, but that it emerged as a spontaneous reaction to the phonetic and prosodic development of Proto-Finnic.