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Author : Richard A. Impola
Publisher : Penfield Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Kalevala
ISBN : 1572160411
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Finland -- Literature -- Kalevala
ISBN : IND:30000007218724
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004674466
Author : Elias Lönnrot
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791041805440
The Kalevala is a Finnish epic poem, which tells of the creation of the world and how the heroes that inhabit it came to be, and the legends of their conflicts and adventures. Spread out over fifty cantos, we hear how existence was created from the egg of a duck, how the forests were created from the chips of a world-tree felled by an ancient wizard, how the mighty Sampo—a multicolored mill of plenty—was created and later stolen, how the nine dread diseases came to be, and many more such stories. The tales contained here are formed from Finland’s oral history. The author, Elias Lönnrot, was a Finnish doctor who was fascinated with his country’s stories, so between the 1820s and 1850s he embarked on a series of expeditions to the countryside of Finland and the surrounding area to collect and transcribe the folk stories told by local people. These tales were gradually collected into several volumes, the final of which is this “new” Kalevala. Lönnrot collected many different variants of each story, then edited each down into a cohesive whole when composing the new verse. The distinctive Kalevala-meter that was a common feature of all the original oral stories was kept during the process, and Crawford used the same with this English translation. Lönnrot’s work proved extremely influential in Finland, and the national pride it imbued has been cited as a factor in the later Finnish independence movement. The Kalevala was also a source of inspiration for later authors of the twentieth century. Tolkien reused some of the themes and characters for the basis of his fictional universe (in particular The Silmarillion), the Kalevala-meter was used in Longfellow’s The Song of Hiawatha, and even Donald Duck has quested—as the Kalevala heroes did—for the legendary Sampo. This edition was translated by John Martin Crawford in the late nineteenth century, and includes his introduction discussing some of the themes, characters, and settings.
Author : Lönnrot
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781365353086
Complied by the various sources of Finland's national mythology, the Kalevala outlines the creation myths of the world and typical stories of heroes of old including romance, lust and conquest. The stories that are told here are a national icon for the people of Finland, which makes this volume an important part of human history.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B100679
Author : George C. Schoolfield
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9511101374
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1984-10
Category : Folklore
ISBN : UFL:31262091304252
Author : Lönnrot
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781773563343
Complied by the various sources of Finland's national mythology, the Kalevala outlines the creation myths of the world and typical stories of heroes of old including romance, lust and conquest. The stories that are told here are a national icon for the people of Finland, which makes this volume an important part of human history. Now in larger print!
Author : John Martin Crawford
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781312316652
A deeper and more esoteric meaning of the Kalevala, however, points to a contest between Light and Darkness, Good and Evil; the Finns representing the Light and the Good, and the Lapps, the Darkness and the Evil. Like the Niebelungs, the heroes of the Finns woo for brides the beauteous maidens of the North; and the similarity is rendered still more striking by their frequent inroads into the country of the Lapps, in order to possess themselves of the envied treasure of Lapland, the mysterious Sampo, evidently the Golden Fleece of the Argonautic expedition. Curiously enough public opinion is often expressed in the runes, in the words of an infant; often too the unexpected is introduced after the manner of the Greek dramas, by a young child, or an old man.
Author : Anon E Mouse
Publisher : Abela Publishing Ltd
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781907256561
THE following translation was undertaken from a desire to lay before the English-speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala (the Land of Heroes, the national epic of the Finns.) The Kalevala describes Finnish nature very minutely and very beautifully. Grimm says that no poem is to be compared with it in this respect. A deeper and more esoteric meaning of the Kalevala, however, points to a contest between Light and Darkness. The numerous myths of the poem are likewise full of significance and beauty, and the Kalevala should be read between the lines, in order that the full meaning of this great epic may be comprehended. The whole poem is replete with the most fascinating folk-lore about the mysteries of nature, the origin of things, the enigmas of human tears, and, true to the character of a national epic, it represents not only the poetry, but the entire wisdom and accumulated experience of a nation. One of the most notable characteristics of the Finnish mythology is the interdependence among the gods. The Finnish deities, like the ancient gods of Italy and Greece, are generally represented in pairs. They have their individual abodes and are surrounded by their respective families. The Sun and the Moon each have a consort, and sons and daughters. Only two sons of Paeivae appear in The Kalevala, one comes to aid of Wainamoinen in his efforts to destroy the mystic Fire-fish, by throwing from the heavens to the girdle of the hero, a "magic knife, silver-edged, and golden-handled;" the other son, Panu, the Fire-child, brings back to Kalevala the fire that bad been stolen by Louhi, the wicked hostess of Pohyola. 10% of the net profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.
Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780486122076
A collection of awe-inspiring stories from Finnish mythology, drawn from the oral traditions of the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala. 38 entrancing tales are appropriate for all ages. 4 illustrations.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Folklore
ISBN : UOM:49015002379726
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547252597
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Kalevala : the Epic Poem of Finland — Complete" by Anonymous. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000121042703
