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Kalevala

Kalevala meaning

The Finnish national epic. | The mythical location where the heroes of Kalevala live. | An urban-type settlement, the administrative capital of the Kalevalsky District, Republic of Karelia, in northwestern Russia; also historically known as Uhtua.

Example sentences (20)

However, the place names in Kalevala seem to transfer the Kalevala further south, which has been interpreted as reflecting the Finnic settlement expansion from the South that came to push the Sami further to the north.

Louhi's revenge on Kalevala Songs 45–49: Enraged at the loss of the Sampo, Louhi sends the people of Kalevala diseases and a great bear to kill their cattle.

The first appearance of Kalevala in collected poetry was recorded in April 1836. citation The choice of Kalevala as the name for his work was not a random choice however.

Grogu thus floats back up in his pram to ground level, uses the Force to flick away an Alamite straggler, and then boards the Starfighter and has R5 pilot them to Kalevala.

February 28 is officially designated as both Kalevala Day and Finnish Culture Day.

But oddly, the Kalevala was read to us at my boarding school when I was about seven", and "from a very early age I was reading Norse legends and any books I could find about Norse stories".

He has a further Kalevala based work which is not part of the series, entitled The Time Twister.

He later integrated this additional material with significant edits of the existing material into a second version, The Kalevala, this version was published in 1849.

He returns to Kalevala and tells Väinämöinen about the prosperity and wealth that has met Pohjola's people thanks to the Sampo.

In The Quest for Kalevala this running gag can be seen on the original, Akseli Gallen-Kallela -inspired cover art.

It is fruitless, however, to attempt to extrapolate concrete percentages of how much of The Kalevala is genuine word-for-word oral tradition and how much is fabricated by the compiler.

Jean Sibelius composed the Lemminkäinen Suite based on Kalevala, with the second piece entitled Swan of Tuonela (Tuonelan joutsen).

Names and places associated with The Kalevala have been adopted as company and brand names and even as place names.

She has many daughters whom the heroes of Kalevala make many attempts (some successful) at seducing.

The Kalevala was published in its originating Carelian language only after 168 years since its first translation to Swedish.

The publication assigned each band with a particular song from the Kalevala, which the band was free to interpret as they saw fit.

These were some of the first pieces of modern music inspired by the Kalevala.

The story is that of The Kalevala with the characters presented as anthropomorphised dogs, wolves and cats.

This angers Väinämöinen who leaves Kalevala after bequeathing his songs and kantele to the people as his legacy.

Ukko Ukko (English: Old man) is the god of sky and thunder, and the leading deity mentioned within The Kalevala.