The Maiden Of Northland

Author : Aaron Shepard
Publisher : Charles Scribner's Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780684196848
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Maiden of Northland written by Aaron Shepard and published by Charles Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incident from the Finnish national epic, The Kalevala, in which two friends become rivals for the hand of the maiden of Northland.

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Publisher : Atheneum Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Maiden of Northland written by and published by Atheneum Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incident from the Finnish national epic, The Kalevala, in which two friends become rivals for the hand of the maiden of Northland.

Author : Lönnrot
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365353087
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kalevala written by Lönnrot and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complied by the various sources of Finland's national mythology, the Kalevala outlines the creation myths of the world and typical stories of heroes of old including romance, lust and conquest. The stories that are told here are a national icon for the people of Finland, which makes this volume an important part of human history.

Author : Elias Lönnrot
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kalevala written by Elias Lönnrot and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-27 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kalevala is a Finnish epic poem, which tells of the creation of the world and how the heroes that inhabit it came to be, and the legends of their conflicts and adventures. Spread out over fifty cantos, we hear how existence was created from the egg of a duck, how the forests were created from the chips of a world-tree felled by an ancient wizard, how the mighty Sampo—a multicolored mill of plenty—was created and later stolen, how the nine dread diseases came to be, and many more such stories. The tales contained here are formed from Finland’s oral history. The author, Elias Lönnrot, was a Finnish doctor who was fascinated with his country’s stories, so between the 1820s and 1850s he embarked on a series of expeditions to the countryside of Finland and the surrounding area to collect and transcribe the folk stories told by local people. These tales were gradually collected into several volumes, the final of which is this “new” Kalevala. Lönnrot collected many different variants of each story, then edited each down into a cohesive whole when composing the new verse. The distinctive Kalevala-meter that was a common feature of all the original oral stories was kept during the process, and Crawford used the same with this English translation. Lönnrot’s work proved extremely influential in Finland, and the national pride it imbued has been cited as a factor in the later Finnish independence movement. The Kalevala was also a source of inspiration for later authors of the twentieth century. Tolkien reused some of the themes and characters for the basis of his fictional universe (in particular The Silmarillion), the Kalevala-meter was used in Longfellow’s The Song of Hiawatha, and even Donald Duck has quested—as the Kalevala heroes did—for the legendary Sampo. This edition was translated by John Martin Crawford in the late nineteenth century, and includes his introduction discussing some of the themes, characters, and settings.

Author : John Martin Crawford
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312316659
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kalevala. Volume I written by John Martin Crawford and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-06-29 with total page 390 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.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 697 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kalevala : the Epic Poem of Finland — Complete written by Anonymous and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Kalevala : the Epic Poem of Finland — Complete" by Anonymous. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( 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 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elias Lönnrot
Publisher : FilRougeViceversa
ISBN 13 : 398594346X
Total Pages : 936 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kalevala written by Elias Lönnrot and published by FilRougeViceversa. This book was released on 2021-08-21 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In primeval times, a maiden, Beauteous Daughter of the Ether, Passed for ages her existence In the great expanse of heaven, O'er the prairies yet enfolded. Wearisome the maiden growing, Her existence sad and hopeless, Thus alone to live for ages In the infinite expanses Of the air above the sea-foam, In the far outstretching spaces, In a solitude of ether, She descended to the ocean, Waves her coach, and waves her pillow. Thereupon the rising storm-wind Flying from the East in fierceness, Whips the ocean into surges, Strikes the stars with sprays of ocean Till the waves are white with fervor.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kalevala written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1613105347
Total Pages : 927 pages
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Download or read book Kalevala the Epic Poem of Finland - Complete written by and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 927 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: