Download or read book Kalevala written by Elias Lönnrot and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One of the great mythic poems of Europe' The New York Times Sharing its title with the poetic name for Finland - 'the land of heroes' - Kalevala is the soaring epic poem of its people, a work rich in magic and myth which tells the story of a nation through the ages from the dawn of creation. Sung by rural Finns since prehistoric times, and formally compiled by Elias Lönnrot in the nineteenth century, it is a landmark of Finnish culture and played a vital role in galvanizing its national identity in the decades leading to independence. Its themes, however, reach beyond borders and search the heart of human existence. Translated with an Introduction by Eino Friberg

Download or read book Kalevala The Epic Poem of Finland into English Book II written by Elias Lönnrot and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Download or read book The Kalevala written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Kalevala Mythology Revised Edition written by Juha Y. Pentikainen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the Kalevala that initiated the process leading to the foundation of Finnish identity during the nineteenth century and was, therefore, one of the crucial factors in the formation of Finland as a new nation in the twentieth century.

Download or read book The Key to the Kalevala written by Pekka Ervast and published by Blue Dolphin Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Key to the Kalevala was originally published in Finland in 1916. Now this insightful and detailed exploration of the ancient origins of Finnish mythology is available in English. Students of the ancient traditions and mystical teachings will find no better introduction to the profound esoteric meaning of the Kalevala, the Finnish National Epic, than Ervast's book. 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. We also have the good fortune of being able to use Eino Friberg's beautiful translation of Kalevala (1988) into the modern American idiom. The combined work of Ervast and Friberg results in a unique, insightful, and aesthetically pleasing offering.

Download or read book Kalevala The Epic Poem of Finland into English Book I written by Elias Lönnrot and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Download or read book Louhi Witch of North Farm written by and published by Puffin. This book was released on 1988 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louhi's plan to steal the sun and the moon backfires when the gods learn of her mischievous scheme.

Download or read book An Illustrated Kalevala written by Kirsti Mäkinen and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover mighty eagles and mythical heroes in this beautifully illustrated prose retelling of Finland's classic epic

Download or read book Kalevala The Epic Poem of Finland into English Complet written by Elias Lönnrot and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Download or read book The Kalevala Volume II written by John Martin Crawford and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-12 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Download or read book The Kanteletar written by Elias Lönnrot and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first appearance in English of The Kanteletar (1840-1), the companion volume to the Finnish national epic poem The Kalevala. Based on Finnish oral tradition, The Kanteletar (roughly "zither-daughter", a kind of muse) is a selection from a treasury of nearly seven hundred lyrics and ballads that celebrate the everyday life of a rural society at work and play. The ballads range from a beautiful sequence of legends about the Virgin Mary, through the grim tales of Elina, to a hilarious account of a dragon that refuses to devour its victims.

Download or read book Subject List of the Hoyt Public Library written by Harriet Howe Ames and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Algonquin Legends of New England Or Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac Passamaquoddy and Penobscot Tribes written by Charles Godfrey Leland and published by Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin, 1885 [c1884]. This book was released on 1885 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bulletin of Books in the Various Departments of Literature and Science Added to the Public Library of Cincinnati During the Year written by Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Story Of Kullervo written by J.R.R. Tolkien and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Shows how Finnish mythology and folk tales were instrumental to how Tolkien created his own legendarium.”—Boston Globe Kullervo, son of Kalervo, is perhaps the darkest and most tragic of all J.R.R. Tolkien’s characters. “Hapless Kullervo,” as Tolkien called him, is a luckless orphan boy with supernatural powers and a tragic destiny. Brought up in the homestead of the dark magician Untamo, who killed his father, kidnapped his mother, and tried three times to kill him when he was still a boy, Kullervo is alone save for the love of his twin sister, Wanona, and the magical powers of the black dog Musti, who guards him. When Kullervo is sold into slavery he swears revenge on the magician, but he will learn that even at the point of vengeance there is no escape from the cruelest of fates. Tolkien himself said that The Story of Kullervo was “the germ of my attempt to write legends of my own,” and was “a major matter in the legends of the First Age.” Tolkien’s Kullervo is the clear ancestor of Túrin Turambar, the tragic incestuous hero of The Silmarillion. Published with the author’s drafts, notes, and lecture essays on its source work, the Kalevala, The Story of Kullervo is a foundation stone in the structure of Tolkien’s invented world. “A fascinating read.”—NPR