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Kalevala : the Epic Poem of Finland By: Elias Lönnrot (1802-1884) |
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THE EPIC POEM OF FINLAND INTO ENGLISH BY JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD [1888]
TO DR. J.D. BUCK, AN ENCOURAGING AND UNSELFISH FRIEND,
AND TO
HIS AFFECTIONATE FAMILY, THESE PAGES
ARE GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED.
CONTENTS. PREFACE PROEM
RUNE I. Birth of Wainamoinen
RUNE II. Wainamoinen's Sowing
RUNE III. Wainamoinen and Youkahainen
RUNE IV. The Fate of Aino
RUNE V. Wainamoinen's Lamentation
RUNE VI. Wainamoinen's Hapless Journey
RUNE VII. Wainamoinen's Rescue
RUNE VIII. Maiden of the Rainbow
RUNE IX. Origin of Iron
RUNE X. Ilmarinen forges the Sampo
RUNE XI. Lemminkainen's Lament
RUNE XII. Kyllikki's Broken Vow
RUNE XIII. Lemminkainen's Second Wooing
RUNE XIV. Death of Lemminkainen
RUNE XV. Lemminkainen's Restoration
RUNE XVI. Wainainoinen's Boat building
RUNE XVII. Wainamoinen finds the Lost Word
RUNE XVIII. The Rival Suitors
RUNE XIX. Ilmarinen's Wooing
RUNE XX. The Brewing of Beer
RUNE XXI. Ilmarinen's Wedding feast
RUNE XXII. The Bride's Farewell
RUNE XXIII. Osmotar, the Bride adviser
RUNE XXIV. The Bride's Farewell
RUNE XXV. Wainamoinen's Wedding songs
RUNE XXVI. Origin of the Serpent
RUNE XXVII. The Unwelcome Guest
RUNE XXVIII. The Mother's Counsel
RUNE XXIX. The Isle of Refuge
RUNE XXX. The Frost fiend
RUNE XXXI. Kullerwoinen, Son of Evil
RUNE XXXII. Kullervo as a Shepherd
RUNE XXXIII. Kullervo and the Cheat cake
RUNE XXXIV. Kullervo finds his Tribe folk
RUNE XXXV. Kullervo's Evil Deeds
RUNE XXXVI. Kullerwoinen's Victory and Death
RUNE XXXVII Ilmarinen's Bride of Gold
RUNE XXXVIII. Ilmarinen's Fruitless Wooing
RUNE XXXIX. Wainamoinen's Sailing
RUNE XL. Birth of the Harp
RUNE XLI. Wainamoinen's Harp songs
RUNE XLII. Capture of the Sampo
RUNE XLIII. The Sampo lost in the Sea
RUNE XLIV. Birth of the Second Harp
RUNE XLV. Birth of the Nine Diseases
RUNE XLVI. Otso the Honey eater
RUNE XLVII. Louhi steals Sun, Moon, and Fire
RUNE XLVIII. Capture of the Fire fish
RUNE XLIX. Restoration of the Sun and Moon
RUNE L. Mariatta Wainamoinen's Departure EPILOGUE
PREFACE.
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 national epic of
the Finns. A brief description of this peculiar people, and of their
ethical, linguistic, social, and religious life, seems to be called for
here in order that the following poem may be the better understood. Finland (Finnish, Suomi or Suomenmaa, the swampy region, of which
Finland, or Fen land is said to be a Swedish translation,) is at
present a Grand Duchy in the north western part of the Russian empire,
bordering on Olenetz, Archangel, Sweden, Norway, and the Baltic Sea,
its area being more than 144,000 square miles, and inhabited by some
2,000,000 of people, the last remnants of a race driven back from the
East, at a very early day, by advancing tribes. The Finlanders live in
a land of marshes and mountains, lakes and rivers, seas, gulfs,
islands, and inlets, and they call themselves Suomilainen,
Fen dwellers. The climate is more severe than that of Sweden. The
mean yearly temperature in the north is about 27°F., and about 38°F., at
Helsingfors, the capital of Finland. In the southern districts the
winter is seven months long, and in the northern provinces the sun
disappears entirely during the months of December and January. The inhabitants are strong and hardy, with bright, intelligent faces,
high cheek bones, yellow hair in early life, and with brown hair in
mature age. With regard to their social habits, morals, and manners,
all travellers are unanimous in speaking well of them. Their temper is
universally mild; they are slow to anger, and when angry they keep
silence. They are happy hearted, affectionate to one another, and
honorable and honest in their dealings with strangers. They are a
cleanly people, being much given to the use of vapor baths... Continue reading book >>
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