Elias Lönnrot

The Kalevala is the great Finnish epic which, like the Iliad and Odyssey, grew out of a rich oral tradition with prehistoric roots. During the first millennium of our era, speakers of Uralic languages (outside the Indo-European group) who had settled in the Baltic region developed an oral poetry that was to last into the nineteenth century. This poetry provided the basis of the Kalevala, assembled by the Finnish scholar Elias Lonnrot and published in its final form in 1849. It played a central role in the process towards Finnish independence and inspired some of the greatest music of Sibelius.

An Epic Poem After Oral Tradition

The Kalevala

Pienois Kalevala

Kanteletar elikkä Suomen kansan wanhoja lauluja ja wirsiä

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Suomen ylioppilaskunnan

Ahti dwelt upon an island, By the bay near Kauko's headland, And his fields he tilled industrious, And the fields he trenched with ploughing, And his ears were of the finest, And his hearing of the keenest.Heard he shouting in the village, From the lake came sounds of hammering, On the ice the sound of footsteps, On the heath a sledge was rattling, Therefore in his mind he fancied, In his brain the notion entered, That at Pohjola was wedding, And a drinking-bou

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Suomalais-Ruotsalainen Sanakirja

Finskt-svenskt lexikon

Mercedeh Mohseni (Translator)

Mahmoud Amir-Yar-Ahmadi (Translator)

Kalevala is the Finnish national epic, compiled from incantations, old songs, and ballads that were part of Finnish oral tradition. The complete Kalevala was published in 1849 consisting of 50 cantos. The original Persian translation was published in 1998.

Kalevala (Persian)

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.

Or, Poems of the Kaleva District

Finskt-Svenskt Lexikon

The Old Kalevala and Certain Antecedents

Svensk, finsk och tysk tolk [signed E.L., i.e. E. Lönnrot?].

reseberättelser från Karelen 1828-1842

Vandraren

Das finnische Epos „Kalewala“ erzählt Mythen über die Erschaffung der Welt, das Schmieden des sagenhaften Sampons und Heldensagen der Väinämöinen, Lemminkäinen, Ilmarinen und Kullervo. Dabei gibt es erstaunliche Parallelen zu Mythen anderer Kulturkreise zu entdecken, wie die jungfräuliche Geburt oder den Osiris- und Ödipusmythos. Die 22.795 Verse wurden von Elias Lönnrot zusammengetragen und in einem Epos vereint. Anton Schiefner, der Begründer der Uralistik, Tibetologie, Mongolistik und Kaukasistik, sorgte Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts für die Übersetzung ins Deutsche.

Zusammengetragen von Elias Lönnrot. Übersetzt von Anton Schiefner

Kalewala, das finnische Nationalepos

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Finskt-Svenskt Lexikon. Förra Delen. A-M

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