Väinämöinen () is the central character in the Finnish folklore and the main character in the national epic Kalevala.

Joukahainen () is a character in the Kalevala, the Finnish epic poem of fifty parts.

Rosa has an especially large following in Finland, and in 1999, he created a special 32-page Donald, Scrooge, Gearloose & nephews strip for his Finnish fans ; Sammon Salaisuus ( translates to The secret of the Sampo, but it is officially named The Quest for Kalevala

Despite the vast geographical distance and customary spheres separating individual singers, The Kalevala, as well as the folk poetry it is based on were always sung in the same metre.

The Kalevala's metre is a form of trochaic tetrameter that is known as the Kalevala metre.

The alteration of normal and broken tetrameters is a characteristic difference between the Kalevala metre and other forms of trochaic tetrameter.

Repetition is useful when a piece has to be rendered into memory as was the case with The Kalevala and its origin poems.

The Sampo is a pivotal element of the plot of the Finnish epic poem Kalevala, compiled in 1835 ( and expanded in 1849 ) by Elias Lönnrot based on earlier Finnish oral tradition.

The movie is a Finnish-Chinese co-production and is loosely based on the Kalevala and includes Wuxia elements as well.

In one type of story, the world is born from a world egg ; such stories include the Finnish epic poem Kalevala, the Chinese story of Pangu or the Indian Brahmanda Purana.

* The Finnish epic Kalevala is published for the first time in the English Language by John Martin Crawford.

The name Tapiola is derived from Tapio, who is the forest god of Finnish mythology, especially as expressed in the Kalevala, the national epic of Finland.

In Kalevala, Antero Vipunen is a giant shaman that possesses mighty spells dating to the creation.

Don Rosa's incarnation of Magica De Spell is, however, far more limited as she usually only uses magic through magical objects and in The Quest for Kalevala, Magica acknowledges that she can't use magic without a wand.

Kalevala Township is a township in Carlton County, Minnesota, United States.

Seppo Ilmarinen, the Eternal Hammerer, blacksmith and inventor in the Kalevala, is an archetypal artificer from Finnish mythology.

was a Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic ( illustration, below ).

This period is characterized by romantic paintings of the Kalevala, like the Aino triptych, and by several landscape paintings.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha, whose meter was taken from Elias Lönnrot's Kalevala, is written almost entirely in trochees, barring the occasional substitution ( iamb, spondee, pyrrhic, etc.

The Finnish national epic Kalevala, like much old Finnish poetry, is written in a variation of trochaic tetrameter.

It is said that his regnal name was to be Väinö I of Finland (' Väinö ' obviously referring to Väinämöinen, one of the main characters in the Finnish national epic Kalevala ), but due to there not being contemporary records of this name it is widely considered a popular misbelief, probably created by columnist Väinö Nuorteva.

It is considered the greatest Finnish epic poem outside the native Kalevala tradition and contains tales of the Finnish War of 1808 – 09 with Russia.

In January 1833, he started as the district health officer of Kainuu and began his work on collecting poetry and compiling The Kalevala.

In autumn of 1834, Lönnrot had written the vast majority of the work needed for what was to become The Old Kalevala ; all that was required was to tie up some narrative loose ends and officially complete the work.

With the Old Kalevala now well into its first publication run, Lönnrot decided to continue collecting poems to supplement his existing work and to understand the culture more completely.

The young Tolkien attempted a retelling of the story of Kullervo from the Kalevala in the style of The House of the Wolfings ; Tolkien considered much of his literary work to have been inspired by an early reading of Morris, even suggesting that he was unable to better Morris's work ; the names of characters such as " Gandolf " and the horse Silverfax appear in The Well at the World's End.

The style of much of his work is like the Kalevala and folk songs.

In this work, the mythical origin of the land and sky, recounted in craggy verses from the Kalevala, becomes an intense Sibelian metaphor for the inexorable force — even the terror of all creation — including that of the artist.

McCutcheon has been awarded the International Kalevala Medal for services to Finnish culture ( for his work on the Kalevala ).

During her work with Hedningarna, she developed a strong interest in the ancient Finnish runo-songs, which compose the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala.

In Finland's national epic, Kalevala, the mage Väinämöinen makes the first kantele from the jawbone of a giant pike and a few hairs from Hiisi's stallion.

In Finland, the reassembly of the national epic, the Kalevala, inspired paintings and murals in the National Romantic style that substituted there for the international Art Nouveau styles.

The Finnish epic Kalevala mentions it, Vincent van Gogh painted it and Federico Garcia Lorca mentions in his poem " Song for the Moon " written August 1920.

" He had started his study of the Finnish language to be able to read the Kalevala epic.

In the Finnish epic Kalevala, a swan lives in the Tuoni river located in Tuonela, the underworld realm of the dead.

Objects that serve the plot function of MacGuffins have had long use in storytelling, for example, the Sampo in a segment of the Finnish epic The Kalevala.

In the epic poetry of the Kalevala, Ilmarinen is credited with forging the stars on the dome of the sky and the magic mill of plenty, the Sampo.

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The publication in 1835 of the Finnish national epic Kalevala first stirred the nationalism that later led to Finland's independence from Russia.

The Finnish national epic, Kalevala tells of his birth in the creation story in its opening sections.

Elias Lönnrot, the compiler of the Finnish national epic Kalevala, gave the city a nickname " Athens of Finland ".

In the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic based on Karelian folklore, the hero Lemminkäinen offers her and Tapio prayers, gold and silver so he can catch the Hiisi elk.

By the 1930s the Finnish epic Kalevala was still read and sometimes sung.

The ships the the Meriekipaasi operated, included the steam frigates Rurik and Kalevala, named after the Finnish national epic.

* Väinämöinen, the protagonist of the Finnish national epic Kalevala.