Kalevala

Author : Elias Lönnrot
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241403073
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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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

Author : Juha Y. Pentikainen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253213525
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Kirsti Mäkinen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781782506430
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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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

Author : Elias Lönnrot
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674500105
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kalevala written by Elias Lönnrot and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This prose translation of Finland's national folk epic vividly recounts the folkways of Kaeol-Finnish peasant life.

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Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kalevala written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kalevala written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anon E Mouse
Publisher : Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1907256563
Total Pages : 765 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE KALEVALA or Land of Heroes - New Improved Edition written by Anon E Mouse and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Pekka Ervast
Publisher : Blue Dolphin Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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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.

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067425614X
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kalevala written by and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1985-03-15 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The national folk epic of Finland is here presented in an English translation that is both scholarly and eminently readable. To avoid the imprecision and metrical monotony of earlier verse translations, Francis Magoun has used prose, printed line for line as in the original so that repetitions, parallelisms, and variations are readily apparent. The lyrical passages and poetic images, the wry humor, the tall-tale extravagance, and the homely realism of the Kalevala come through with extraordinary effectiveness.

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Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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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: