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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...minstrel, As hThears the joyful tidings, Learns the death of fell Kullervo, " O, ye many unborn nations, Never evil nurse your children, Never give them out to strangers, Never trust them to the foolish 1 If the child is not well nurtured, Is not rocked and led uprightly, Though he grow to years of manhood, Bear a strong and shapely body, He will never know discretion, Never eat the bread of honor, Never drink the cup of wisdom." RUNE XXXVII. Ilmabinen's Bride Of Gold. Ilmarinen, metal-worker, Wept one day, and then a second, Wept the third from morn till evening, O'er the death of his companion, Once the Maiden of the Rainbow; Did not swing his heavy hammer, Did not touch its copper handle, Made no sound within his smithy, Made no blow upon his anvil, Till three months had circled over; Then the blacksmith spake as follows: " Woe is me, unhappy hero! Do not know how I can prosper; Long the days, and cold, and dreary, Longer still the nights, and colder; I am weary in the evening, In the morning still nm weary, Have no longing for the morning, And the evening is unwelcome; Have no pleasure in the future, All my pleasures gone forever, With my faithful life-companion Slaughtered by the hand of witchcraft I Often will my'heart-strings quiver When I rest within my chamber, When I wake at dreamy midnight, Half-unconscious, vainly searching For my noble wife departed." Wifeless lived the mourning blacksmith, Altered in his form and features; Wept one month and then another, Wept three months in full succession. Then the magic metal-worker Gathered gold from deeps of ocean, Gathered silver from the mountains, Gathered many heaps of birch-wood, Filled with faggots thirty sledges, Burned the birch-wood into ashes; Put the ashes in the furnace,...
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"One of the great mythic poems of Europe" (New York Times)
"I was immensely attracted by something in the air of the Kalevala" (Tolkien to W.H. Auden in 1955)
"Did so much to bolster early Finnish nationalism on the road to independence" (Guardian)
"The Kalevala , the 19th-century folk epic that crystallised national resistance to Russian rule, was compiled by Elias Lonnrot from ancient runes sung from memory in the eastern forests of Karelia. The Kalevala inspired not only Sibelius but JRR Tolkien, whose Middle Earth and elfin tongue tapped Finnish myths and language" (Guardian)
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"I was immensely attracted by something in the air of the Kalevala" (Tolkien to W.H. Auden in 1955)
"Did so much to bolster early Finnish nationalism on the road to independence" (Guardian)
"The Kalevala , the 19th-century folk epic that crystallised national resistance to Russian rule, was compiled by Elias Lonnrot from ancient runes sung from memory in the eastern forests of Karelia. The Kalevala inspired not only Sibelius but JRR Tolkien, whose Middle Earth and elfin tongue tapped Finnish myths and language" (Guardian)
Discover the great Finnish epic on the 100th anniversary of the birth of the country of Finland.
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0217591752
- ISBN 13 9780217591751
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages66
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