KALEVALA

käˈlĕväˌlä, Finnish national epic. It is a compilation of verses recounting extraordinary deeds of three semidivine brothers from mythical Kaleva, land of the heroes. Zakarias Topelius published fragments in 1822; Elias Lönnrot gave the cycle its present form, editing the material and sometimes writing transitional verses himself. Lönnrot published the collection of 50 runes (nearly 23,000 lines) in 1849. Its effect on Finnish art in all its branches has been great. The eight-syllable trochaic line of the Kalevala was imitated by Longfellow in Hiawatha.

See tr. by W. F. Kirby (1907, new ed. 1956) and F. P. Magoun (1963).

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books on: Kalevala  - 401 results

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A History of Finland's Literature
Book by George C. Schoolfield; University of Nebraska Press, 1998
Subjects: Finnish Literature--History And Criticism
...1. Finnish Oral Poetry, Kalevala and Kanteletar...21 The Kalevala World / 22...30 The New Kalevala / 31...
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Heroic Epic and Saga: An Introduction to the World's Great Folk Epics
Book by Felix J. Oinas; Indiana University Press, 1978
Subjects: Epic Literature--History And Criticism, Folk Literature--History And Criticism
...lays or oral narrators recited heroic saga, but how closely the oral basis lies behind the received text. Because the Kalevala was stitched together only in the past century, Felix Oinas can describe with certainty the process whereby Finlands national...
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A Jungian Approach to Literature
Book by Bettina L. Knapp; Southern Illinois University Press, 1984
Subjects: Archetype (Psychology) In Literature, Jung, C. G--(Carl Gustav)--1875-1961--Views On Literature, Psychoanalysis And Literature
...Heros Destiny 227 Part 6 The Kalevala 500-1300? : Finnish Shamanism-- The Senex Hero and the...destiny. Part 6 fleshes out the Finnish national epic-- The Kalevala. The hero in this work is born, paradoxically, old. The events...
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Nordic Art Music: From the Middle Ages to the Third Millennium
Book by Frederick Key Smith; Praeger, 2002
Subjects: Music--Scandinavia--History And Criticism
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Area Handbook for Finland
Book by Theodore L. Stoddard, William K. Carr, Shaheen Dil, John Johnson, Carlo La Porta, Nils Ørvik, Douglas K. Ramsey, Kirk H. Stone, Carla Lofberg Valenta; U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1974
Subjects: Finland
...Development 97 The Kalevala-- Literature and Poetry-- Theater...publication, the so-called national epic, the Kalevala . This legend, which recounts the adventures...and characterizations portrayed in the Kalevala furnish the Finns with a means of seeing...
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journal articles on: Kalevala  - 48 results

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Textualizing the Tales of the People of the Book: Folk Narrative Anthologies and National Identity in Modern Israel
Journal article by Galit Hasan-Rokem; Prooftexts, Vol. 19, 1999
Subjects: Bible--O.T, Hebrew Literature, Jewish Literature, Yiddish Literature
...GRIMM BROTHERS or the Finnish epic Kalevala , collecting oral folk creativity, writing...the brothers Grimm or the Finnish Kalevala , Noys various projects have never...Elias Lonnrot based his epic collection Kalevala on orally performed epic songs. These...
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The Arts, Artifacts, and Artifices of Identity
Journal article by Elliott Oring; Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 107, 1994
Subjects: Folklore, Folklore--United States, Manners And Customs, United States--Social Life And Customs
...call with the first edition of the Kalevala. 11 There were those who believed...collected, Lonnrot had merely restored the Kalevala to its original form. Others doubted...asserted that the elements from which the Kalevala had been constructed were not of Finnish...
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Re-interpreting Cultural Nationalism
Journal article by John Hutchinson; The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 45, 1999
Subjects: Community--Growth, National state--Social aspects, Nationalism--History, Social structure--Evaluation
...discovery" and publication in 1832 of the ancient Kalevala epic. The Kalevala was used to claim for Finns the status of one of...of patriotic societies to study Finnish and the Kalevala, the promotion in schools of a knowledge of the...
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Understanding Beowulf: Oral Poetry Acts
Journal article by John D. Niles; Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 106, 1993
Subjects: Folklore, Folklore--United States, Manners And Customs, United States--Social Life And Customs
...range of possibilities. The Finnish Kalevala results from a process of self-conscious...Even those scholars who regard the Kalevala as fakelore grant that Lonnrot succeeded...Closer to oral tradition than the Kalevala , yet departing more strikingly from...
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Native Hermeneutics Traditional Means of Interpreting Lyric Songs in Northern Europe
Journal article by Thomas A. Dubois; Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 109, 1996
Subjects: Manners And Customs, United States--Social Life And Customs
...Finnish Oral Verse. In Songs beyond the Kalevala: Transformations of Oral Poetry , ed...1995 . Finnish Folk Poetry and the Kalevala . New York: Garland. Dundes, Alan...Wedding Songs. In Songs beyond the Kalevala: Transformations of Oral Poetry , ed...
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magazine articles on: Kalevala  - 14 results

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A Nation Born Old : Finland's Long Road to Self-Determination
Magazine article by Stephen J. Osmond; World and I, Vol. 14, July 1999
Subjects: Finland--History, Kalevala (Poem)--Political aspects
...at last came ashore at a place called Kalevala. Here he dragged himself to his feet...yesterday The foremost character in the Kalevala, Finlands national epic, Vaino (or Vainamoinen...under Russian rule. Publication of the Kalevala--in 1835--was a pivotal event. Assembled...
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Sound Waves
Magazine article by Angela Starita; World and I, Vol. 13, October 1998
Subjects: Finland, Finns--Influence, Music, Popular music--Finland
...based on the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala. Yet many recent Finnish pop bands...folklorist, compiled folktales into the Kalevala. Midway through the century, the countrys...composed to accompany the reading of the Kalevala. Although Finland was ruled by Russia...
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The Children of Hurin
Magazine article by Philip Zaleski; The Christian Century, Vol. 124, October 16, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Children of Hurin (Book)--Book reviews
...Volsunga saga, Beowulf and, above all, the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, which Tolkien read as a teenager and about which he then wrote: "The more I read of the Kalevala, the more I felt at home and enjoyed myself." Prophetically, he added...
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Poultry Academy: A Poultry Farming School, Intended to Help the People of a Desperately Poor Tropical Country Evolve a Better Diet from Chickens, Has Been Built with Wisdom and Care for the Environment Drawn from the North
Magazine article; The Architectural Review, Vol. 210, November 2001
Subjects: Agricultural colleges--Buildings, facilities, etc., Guinea--Buildings, facilities, etc., Kahere Poultry Farming School--Buildings, facilities, etc.
...and Finnish (which have little in common except underlying structures). He ended up by translating the Finnish national epic Kalevala into his native language. His activities attracted the attention of Ella Kivekas, who after Alphas death in Finland in 1984...
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Northern Lights: Peter Conrad Is Dazzled by Two New Recordings of Scandinavian Songs
Magazine article by Peter Conrad; New Statesman, Vol. 133, March 1, 2004
Subjects: Grieg and Sibelius Songs (Sound recording), Sound recordings--ReviewsSound recording reviews, Watercolours (Sound recording)--Sound recording reviews
...calls herself a Slav not a Scandinavian. She reverts to Finnish for "Luonnotar", in which Sibelius set an excerpt from the epic Kalevala describing the creation: a hovering bird inseminates the waters, which bring forth the egg that contains our world. Apologising...
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Lengthy but Magnificent; CLASSICAL
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 19, 2005
...Sir Colin Davis directed the London Symphony Orchestra in two works by Sibelius, both inspired by the Finnish folk-epic the Kalevala. By way of an extravagant prelude, there was an exquisitely shaped performance of the tone poem Pohjolas Daughter, a touching...
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TAKING STOCK; Spotlight Is on Insurers as Talk Flies Round RSA
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 19, 2006
Subjects: Insurance companies, Insurance industry, Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group PLC
...SIMON WATKINS THE Sampo is a mythical item whose ability to bring power and prosperity to its holder are recounted in the Kalevala, Finlands national epic poem. The nature of the Sampo is not made clear, but in broad terms it is a kind of Finnish Holy Grail...
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Teachers Pan 'Ring' Film; Say Series Unfaithful to Intentions of Tolkien
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 2, 2003
...nationhood," Ms. Flieger says, citing "Kalevala," a mid-19th century Finnish collection...became independent on Dec. 6, 1917, "Kalevala" soared in popularity as a national epic...Iliad" and the "Odyssey." "Tolkien saw Kalevala and wanted to write something similar...
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Magic Markets
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 26, 2005
...Aleksanterinkatu, the citys official Christmas street, which is all lit up. Helsinki is a great place to find distinctive presents. Try Kalevala Koru (address: Strembergintie 4), which specialises in operatic jewellery. Find cosmetic bags and duvet covers at Marimekko...
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Bringing Warm Music to Dark Chill of Winter
Newspaper article by Amy Hutchinson; The Washington Times, December 5, 1996
...A highlight of this years performance is the telling of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic. Created in the early 1800s, it...of myths and folk tales of early Finland. Portions of the Kalevala are acted out by the Karelian Folk Ensemble through dance...
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encyclopedia articles on: Kalevala  - 6 results

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Kalevala
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KALEVALA ka leva la, Finnish national epic. It is a compilation of verses recounting extraordinary deeds of three semidivine...Jan Sibelius , who used it in a number of works, notably Karelia (1893). The eight-syllable trochaic line of the Kalevala was imitated by Longfellow in Hiawatha. See tr. by W. F. Kirby (1907, new ed. 1956) and F. P. Magoun (1963...
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LÖnnrot, Elias
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...as lon root, 1802 84, Finnish philologist, compiler of the Kalevala . Although he was trained as a physician, he spent his life...Finland, Lapland, and NW Russia, collecting fragments of the Kalevala from the rune singers. Of these he published in 1835 about...
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Gallen-Kallela, Akseli Valdemar
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...galan -kal lala, 1865 1931, Finnish painter. He was a student of Bouguereau. His series of stark, linear paintings of the Kalevala epic are among the finest Finnish works on national folk themes. Most of Gallen-Kallelas work is in Helsinki...
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Finnish Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...as well as the historical writings of Henry Gabriel Porthan (1739 1804) and the publication (1835) by Elias Lonnrot of the Kalevala , helped to feed interest in Finnish as a literary vehicle. Still many continued to write in Swedish, among them Zacharias...
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Karelia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...shared the history of Finland until 1940. It was from oral traditions among the Karelians that the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, was compiled in the 19th cent. by Elias Lonnrot . The Karelian area of the Russian Empire was economically backward and...
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