Gandalf based on Kalevala's Vainamoinen?

Thank you both for the links; I did a search with "Vainamoinen" (no umlauts) and didn't find anything, so thanks for helping me out.

PS: I'm Finnish too, but working on a US keyboard... I may put in the a: s and o: s when I'm finishing up the paper, but I'd have to go through the Symbol menu in Word to do that - there's no key combination on they keyboard that allows me to type those letters... =/

(Edit: took a look at both threads, and although they're pretty much right on the subject, there's really nothing I can use: I'm trying to stay fairly focused on the Gandalf=Vainamoinen thing.

PPS: dancing spawn: you wouldn't happen to have a secondary source where the details of Turin/Kullervo are mentioned, would you? I can probably still use them, but I need to cite them properly.

Thanks again!)