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 | | At yet another level, all fifty cantos of Kalevala can be seen to allegorise in their account of the growing prosperity of Väinämöinen and his people the significance of a cultural tradition as a means of defining and holding together a national group. | | | Kalevala, however imperfectly its nature and significance were understood, also became and remains for many people around the world a symbol of Finland. | | | The influence of Kalevala on Sibelius at the turn of the century has done much to establish a symbolic association of Kalevala with Finland in the minds of many people in the English speaking world. |
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http://www.stavacademy.co.uk/mimir/kalevala.htm
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| | Kalevala, tr. Crawford |
| | This rune of the Kalevala is particularly interesting as showing the belief that the dead can be restored to life through the blissful light of heaven. | | | In the capacity of ruler he was assisted by his wife, a hideous, horrible, old witch with "crooked, copper-fingers iron-pointed," with deformed head and distorted features, and uniformly spoken of in irony in the Kalevala as "hyva emanta," the good hostess; she feasted her guests on lizards, worms, toads, and writhing serpents. | | | The mountain-ash even to this day, and the birch-tree, are held sacred, and peasants plant them by their cottages with reverence. |
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http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/faculty/stampe/Oral-Lit/Finnish/Kalevala-tr/kalevala-tr.html
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| | The Living Kalevala |
| | The virgin Marjatta's infant son is baptized and hailed as King of Karelia, and "the lord of all the might." Enraged, the old chief Vainamoinen sings himself a boat of copper, seats himself in the stern, and sails over the sparkling billows. | | | After a suitable introduction, the story begins with the creation of the world, which blends the gods of the old religions and the spirits of nature. | | | But they have not forgotten the sacrifices their families made to educate them, and Kalevala Day festivals somehow give them the opportunity to express, in some small way, their gratitude to their ancestors. |
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http://www.worldandi.com/public/1987/november/cl5.cfm
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| | The Song of Hiawatha, an "Indian Kalevala" |
| | Väinämöinen is the son of the virgin of the air, Ilmatar, who having descended into the sea, had been impregnated by the winds and the waves. | | | The runes contained in Kalevala existed in their form and verse without the influence of foreign nationalism. | | | His prayer is answered in the form of barley. |
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http://www.kaiku.com/kalevalainhiawatha.html
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| | Timo Vihavainen: To whom does the Kalevala Belong? |
| | It was in the first half of the 19th century that learned society first began to cherish the instinctive wisdom of the common people. | | | Thus the passions aroused by the question of the Kalevala's national origins began to fade on both sides of the border. | | | The non-bourgeois nature of the Karelian language (as Bubrich preferred to call it) was above all suspicion and readily adopted elements of Russian – the truly proletarian dominant language of Soviet Union, the Fatherland of the toilers of the world! |
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http://dbgw.finlit.fi/fili/bff/299/vihavainen.htm
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| | The Key to the Kalevala (Blue Dolphin Publishing) |
| | From the rune stories of the Kalevala arose a lively picture of the Finnish people's past, their religion, traditions, struggles, ideals and heroes. | | | A detailed investigation also reveals that the different runes of the Kalevala are not all of the same age. | | | This translation is authorized by Ervast's study-school in Finland, whose members have worked to preserve his insights into his culture's past and the spiritual evolution of humanity. |
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http://www.bluedolphinpublishing.com/key.htm
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| | Kalevala Project - Contact |
| | The Kalevala Project is a volunteer effort to tell people about an effective spiritual path based on Light and Sound, the spiritual lessons of the Kalevala, and the impact of the Kalevala on the Finnish ethos. | | | It uncovers spiritual aspects of the Kalevala, including the Sampo, Marjatta and her Son, and Väinämöinen, poet eternal. | | | The book shows their influence on Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings) and on life in Finland (one of the world's most effective cultures). |
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http://www.kalevalaproject.squarespace.com/contact
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| | EGIL |
| | Against this background the interest in the Kalevala is perfectly explicable. | | | In this introduction, it says that he did not follow the original text literally, but concentrated on its essence. | | | For information on the epic and its backgrounds, Bulder apparently consulted Eekhout, who, by that time, lived nearby (Bulder in Hoogezand, and Eekhout in Groningen). |
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http://odur.let.rug.nl/~vdhoeven/tutkimus/egil.htm
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| | Kalevala - short stories from the book |
| | The study of Kalevala should not be construed as a religion, though it does fit into some old and new religions practiced today by people who have rejected Christianity. | | | People of all religions in the world study this fascinating subject for the enjoyment. | | | These runos often petitioned gods or spirits, or spoke of origins. |
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http://uralica.com/kalevala.htm
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| | FF Network 16 - The Kalevala in translation |
| | One of the most faithful translations of the Kalevala is probably the Latvian version, which has been studied by Lauri Posti. | | | In this review, Jyrkänkallio mentions that the lines of poetry in the Turkish Kalevala have been reduced by approximately one fifth, but that according to the translators' own preface, they have striven to remain otherwise faithful to the original text. | | | Hentinen, Aino 1954: Saul Tschernichovsky ja Kalevalan hepreannos [Tschernichovsky and the Hebrew translation of Kalevala]. |
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http://www.folklorefellows.fi/netw/ffn16/translation.html
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| | The Kalevala metre |
| | Ritual poems focus especially on weddings and bear-killing feasts. | | | In Archangel Karelia the old poetry tradition has survived until the present day. | | | Kalevala metre incantations are verbal magic, which was part of people's everyday lives and activities. |
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http://www.karuse.info/metre.htm
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| | Kalevala -- Ruth MacKenzie |
| | She asked, "What are you doing in here?" I told her we were singing. | | | Over and over I read passages describing the power of the singer to evoke transformation: | | | I've taken the original Kalevala text and interwoven poems from other Finno-Ugrian song lyric sources to broaden the emotional and metaphysical landscape from which the story is told. |
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http://www.omnium.com/kalevala/kalev_ruth.html
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| | Kalevala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | (Lönnrot signed the preface on February 28, 1835.) The old Kalevala consisted of 12,078 verses or thirty-two poems. | | | J.R.R. Tolkien claimed the Kalevala as one of his sources for the writings which became the Silmarillion. | | | Some scholars locate the lands of Kalevala to East Karelia, where most of the Kalevala stories were written down. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevala
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| | Kalevala'99 |
| | "Kalevala" is the invaluable source of information on life and beliefs of northern peoples. | | | I think, I shall not be mistaken, if I tell, that each family possesses the book of "Kalevala". | | | For the first time in Russian the complete text of "Kalevala" has been issued in 1888 in Leonid Belskii's translation. |
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http://www.kalevala.ru/katanandov_e.shtml
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| | THE KALEVALA TAROT Created by Kai Kalervo Aaltonen |
| | Lönnrot's publication of the Kalevala in 1835 and then, expanded and reordered in 1849, was a major force in helping the Finns define themselves apart from the Swedes and Russians who had ruled over them in recent centuries (since the 12th century) from the West and East respectively. | | | The Kalevala was constructed by Elias Lönnrot in the nineteenth century from a tiny subset of the runo poems that had been sung for centuries in rural parts of Finland. | | | Kalevala: from Myth to Symbol This article was written for Virtual Finland by Professor Michael Branch, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. |
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http://www.tarotpassages.com/kalevala-jc.htm
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| | Untitled Document |
| | The people of Kalevala organize a bear-killing feast. | | | Louhi sends diseases to destroy the people of Kalevala, but Väinämöinen cures the sick. | | | Each band participating has chosen one part and will make their music inspired by it. |
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http://www.colossus.fi/kalevala/Tribute.htm
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| | The Main Event: Don Rosa and The Quest for Kalevala |
| | The oldest of Kalevala's poems had survived for three thousand years by oral tradition, although there are more recent layers in them as well. | | | Lönnrot expanded and re-edited the poems, and in 1849 New Kalevala was published, comprising fifty stanzas and almost 23,000 lines, telling of heroes of the olden days, their journeys and a version of the creation of the world. | | | The first translation of the New Kalevala was into German in 1852. |
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http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/scoop_article.asp?ai=6377&si=124
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| | Kalevala |
| | Books four and five deal with the story of Aino, a young maiden who drowned herself and joined the muses rather than marry an obnoxious, old man. Here is an example of a watery female figure, or mermaid, that was thought in ancient Finland to be the spirit of a drowned woman. | | | It tells of the weaknesses and spiritual strength of ancient heroes, and has been translated into over thirty languages with many artists having received inspiration from it. | | | Kalevala, first published in 1835,with a larger edition being published in 1849. |
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http://www.wellesley.edu/Psychology/Cheek/Narrative/Stories/kalevala.html
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| | Picture Books & Story Books ~ The Maiden of Northland (Epic Heroes, Kalevala) |
| | Not so long ago, in the tiny, isolated villages of Finland, where prolonged summer days give way to endless winter nights, people would pass the time by singing the many adventures of their favorite heroes: the mighty, magical men and women of ancient days. | | | This is an unusual and appealing book, particularly in light of the scarcity of books for children in this subject area. | | | Picture Books and Story Books ~ The Maiden of Northland (Epic Heroes, Kalevala) |
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http://www.aaronshep.com/books/Northland.html
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| | Amazon.com: Kalevala Tarot: Books: Taina Pailos |
| | 2)On page 75, he pretends that the name Ainikki was given to two different characters in the Kalevala, eg, the sisters of Ilmarinen and Lemminkäinen. | | | In the Kalevala, they are not fighting for her at all; she is Joukahainen's sister whom Joukahainen promises to Väinämöinen ultimately to save his own life. | | | Most of these diagrams are, in substance, copies from Crowley's Book of Thot (or any other book who copied from it) and Aaltonen doesn't give any explanation or reference. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0880790946?v=glance
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| | Finnish Kalevala Mythology |
| | Here you will find the KEY to the Kalevala and the mysteries of human spiritual unfolding... | | | A Summary of the Fifty Runos of the Kalevala | | | How Ervast's Key came to be translated and published in America. |
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http://www.edj.net/mc2012/finn.htm
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| | realmud garden: kalevala & berbere |
| | As far as nationalistic anthems go, Finlandia's hymn (Finlandia, op.26) in the middle, always brings me to tears. | | | And here is an index/gallery of the whole body of Gallen-Kallela's work. | | | Of course, Jean Sibelius and others were also inspirired by Kalevala. |
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http://realmudgarden.blogspot.com/2005/12/kalevala-berbere.html
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| | Recreating the Kalevala |
| | The Kalevala is above all a book of songs. | | | The songs of the Kalevala were sung in different situations and the rune-singer selected his song according to the nature of the situation. | | | The English texts with the illustrations are from W.F. Kirby's translation of the Kalevala (1907) |
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http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/bff/299/hannuv.html
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| | The art of Huitula - Kalevala (comic book) |
| | In the second part of the Kalevala comic book Lemminkäinen, not being invited to the wedding of Pohjola, travels to Pohjola to have his vengeance. | | | Dive into the dawn of history, past the centuries into the time when time itself did yet have no meaning... | | | The first and the only graphic novel adaptation of the Kalevala, the mystical national epic of Finland, which was also used by J.R.R. Tolkien when writing his book The Lord of the Rings. |
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http://www.huitula.com/kalevala2.htm
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| | Kalevala on Encyclopedia.com |
| | The Kalevala and the World's Traditional Epics.(Book Review) | | | Jan Sibelius, who used it in a number of works, notably Karelia (1893). |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/K/Kalevala.asp
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| | Kalevala — The Finnish National Epic — Virtual Finland |
| | This New Kalevala is the version which has been read in Finland ever since and upon which most translations are based. | | | It brought a small, unknown people to the attention of other Europeans, and bolstered the Finns' self-confidence and faith in the possibilities of a Finnish language and culture. | | | This poetic song tradition, sung in an unusual, archaic trochaic tetrametre, had been part of the oral tradition among speakers of Balto-Finnic languages for two thousand years. |
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http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/kaleva.html
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| | HS Culture 28.2.2002 - Today is Kalevala Day |
| | HS Culture 28.2.2002 - Today is Kalevala Day | | | It was also reportedly a source of inspiration for J.R.R. Tolkein in his Lord of the Rings novels, and was definitely in the mind of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who adapted the idiosyncratic Kalevala meter for his Song of Hiawatha. | | | In a completely different vein, Kalevala characters and places still live on in business life, in the names given to many key Finnish companies, although in recent years we have seen a tendency to replace traditional names with more "international" ones that nobody is quite sure about. |
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http://www2.hs.fi/english/archive/news.asp?id=20020228IE4
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| | Kalevala Bracelets |
| | Kalevala Koru bracelets have their roots in antiquity. | | | The prototype for this Kalevala Koru design dates from the 12th century. | | | In older cultures, bracelets were worn only by brave men. |
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http://www.northerner.com/html/kalevala-b_1.html
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| | Petri Tikka's Kalevala translation |
| | Petri has translated a fragment of Kalevala into Quenya. | | | In those lands of Kalevala, chanted his songs to people. | | | Interesting experiment, because Kalevala was an impulse for J.R.R. Tolkien to create his legendarium and to create first Elvish language - Qenya (later Quenya). |
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http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/petri_tikka.htm
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| | Kalevala |
| | chefo di Kalevala, olda e saja savanto Väinämöinen, di qua kanti havas magiala povo. | | | Kalevala ne prizentas direte folkloro qua esis kom fonto. | | | Kalevala finas en nasko di Kristo kande Väinämöinen departas lasta-foye. |
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http://ido.encyclopedia.st/Kalevala
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| | Finnish literature (the s.c.nordic FAQ) |
| | For instance, between 1908-48 was published a massive, 33-volume book series called Suomen Kansan Vanhoja Runoja, containing altogether 85,000 poems, with well over a million verses. | | | Nevertheless, its role to the development of Finnish literature, arts and identity can hardly be over-estimated, and having been translated to all major world languages and lots of minor ones, it is no doubt the most important contribution of Finland to world literature. | | | Minna Canth (1844-97), an energetic fighter for women's rights and social justice, was a contemporary of Juhani Aho (1861-1921), a novelist and short-story writer known for his humorous sketches and lyrical, dreamy descriptions of nature. |
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http://www.lysator.liu.se/nordic/scn/faq47.html
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| | ipedia.com: Music of Finland Article |
| | Karelian culture is perceived as the purest expression of the Finnic myths and beliefs, uncontaminated by Germanic influence, in contrast to Finland's position between the East and the West. | | | A form of rhyming sleigh song called rekilaulu became popular in the 17th century. | | | The same year conductor Robert Kajanus founded what is known as the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and Martin Wegelius founded what is now known as the Sibelius Academy. |
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http://www.ipedia.com/music_of_finland.html
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| | Kalevala |
| | Most of the runot collected by Elias Lönnrot into the Kalevala were collected in White Sea Karelia, on the Russian side of the Russia-Finnish border. | | | This portion of the site will be devoted to the Kalevala: its creation, its characters, its influence in Finnish culture and history. | | | Juminkeko, An information centre of the Kalevala and Karelian culture |
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http://www.henkimaa.nu/finndex/kalevala
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| | KALEVALA |
| | The first complete English translation (into verse, from Anton Schiefner's German version of 1852) was made by the Cincinnati physician John Martin Crawford in 1888; then, a second English verse translation done by an entomologist at London's Natural History Museum William Forsell Kirby, appeared in 1907 and employed the original text as its basis. | | | Now, Eino Friberg's translation - thus, the fourth full translation to appear in English - has employed verse again, but a verse, like that of the Finnish Kalevala itself, altogether capable of metric variety, not the monotonously regular and unchanging trochaic tetrameter of Crawford and Kirby. | | | he Kalevala has so far been fully translated into 35 and partially into 100 languages. |
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http://kalevala.onego.ru/1e.htm
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| | Kalevala |
| | As some might know, Kalevala (Kale's Land) is the name of a Finnish cultural treasure - a collection of written mythical legends about the hero Kale. | | | After the first Kalevala line-up broke up, he initially joined Punaise Langa before moving on to another short-lived group named Manifest with guitar player Hasse Walli (ex-Blues Section and Piirpauke) and keyboard player Jukka Linkola (before he joined Finnforest). | | | Almost three years later, Kurkinen and Salonen recorded a new Kalevala album with new recruits. |
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http://www.alexgitlin.com/npp/kalevala.htm
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| | Kalevala Tarot |
| | The Kalevala came into being between 1830 and 1840. | | | It is a collection of some 65,000 poems describing the adventures and tales of the Kalevala heroes and wisemen in their struggle against the Pohjola tribe. | | | In 1986, while he was working on a book on numerology, Kalervo Aaltonen had the idea of creating a tarot deck based on the Finnish national epic the Kalevala. |
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http://www.learntarot.com/kvdesc.htm
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| | <i>Lord of the Rings</i> Inspired by an Ancient Epic |
| | A collection of these runes, comparable to India's Ramayana, or the Greek Odyssey, is known in Finland as the Kalevala, and those who sing its lyrical verses from memory are known as rune singers. | | | But a dialect still existed in this isolated region as it always had—in oral form, passed down through the ages from one generation to the next in songs and verses, or runes. | | | However, the Kalevala itself will not die with Jussi, due to the efforts of a country doctor named Elias L&. |
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/12/1219_tolkienroots.html
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| | Aurora |
| | The day of Kalevala is celebrated on 28th of February. | | | At the beginning of the Kalevala there is a description of the creation of nature, where | | | You can imagine some similarities connecting the epic to Greek |
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http://www.aurora.komvux.norrkoping.se/etel/litera/12/epic.htm
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| | Kalevala |
| | And now we come into the question of this current task: the translation of The Kalevala into Quenya. | | | Many of the resulting writings can be found on these Men Eldalambinen pages, others on the archives of the mailing lists Elfling and Lambengolmor. | | | It quite intoxicated me." He learned only little Finnish, but it greatly influenced him. |
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http://www.geocities.com/petristikka/elvish/foreword.html
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| | Voices in the Dark - Kalevala - Free MP3 Audio Books |
| | Runos 1 - 19: an opening portion which describes how the dyadic relation of Northland and Kalevala was established, and reveals the efforts at establishing reciprocity between these pairs through exogamy. | | | Runos 20 - 36: an intermediary section which goes into great detail about the marriage practices serving to maintain this reciprocity (note, too, the pendant to these - the funeral details which appear in Runo 36). | | | Voices in the Dark - Kalevala - Free MP3 Audio Books |
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http://www.voicesinthedark.com/content.php?iContent=318
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| | Kalevala Jewelry - Kalevala Koru |
| | What is more, you can take a piece of it home by buying a work of art that conjures up the mystery and splendors of centuries past. | | | They also make wonderful new designs, which are designed with awareness of our heritage and ties in to our other products with perfect harmony. | | | Kalevala® jewelry spans over a wide variety that is divided in to the following product groups. |
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http://www.vikingart.com/Kalevala
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| | Sound & Spirit: Program Descriptions |
| | But for others, cities can frightening and alienating. | | | The great national epic of Finland known as the Kalevala is a huge tapestry of stories of love and heroism, family struggles and magical adventures. | | | The music it has inspired ranges from the chants of ancient Finnish folksingers to the lush classical compositions of Sibelius. |
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http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/pri/spirit/2004index.html
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| | read the Kalevala on 43 Things |
| | I got myself a copy of the Kalevala a few years ago. | | | You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind. | | | Actually, a Don Rosa Uncle Scrooge adventure got me interested in Kalevala many years ago, and now I have started to read the Kalevala itself. |
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http://www.43things.com/things/view/251567
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| | Kalevala Tarot Review |
| | The Kalevala Tarot is based on the Finnish national epic of poems, which were collected and publshed in the between 1830 and 1840. | | | A deck based on the Kalevala, a Finnish national epic, constructed in the nineteenth century and based on rural poems and songs. | | | Support Aeclectic Tarot by ordering the Kalevala Tarot from |
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http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/kalevala/review.shtml
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| | Faraway Games Home of Tartarus and Kalevala |
| | We used to run Kalevala, but thats now a dead world. | | | We run the persistant free on-line war world, known as the Tartarus battlesphere. | | | Come and join our on-line war game, and join the eternally raging clan wars. |
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http://www.faraway.co.uk
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