The original poem, written in 1846 but not printed until 1848, had 11 stanzas and formed the prologue to the great verse cycle The Tales of Ensign Stål (" Fänrik Ståhls Sägner "), a masterpiece of Romantic nationalism.

Runeberg's most famous work is Fänrik Ståls sägner ( The Tales of Ensign Stål, Vänrikki Stoolin tarinat in Finnish ) written between 1848 and 1860.

Edelfelt went on to illustrate Runeberg's epic poem The Tales of Ensign Stål.

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Schauman's patriotism is rumoured to have been awakened in his childhood when his mother used to read him The Tales of Ensign Stål by Johan Ludvig Runeberg.

In Linna's own words, he wished to give the Finnish soldier a brain, an organ lacking in earlier depictions — this was a barb directed at Johan Runeberg's The Tales of Ensign Stål, which admiringly portrays Finnish soldiers with big hearts and little independent intellect.

Part of a large and famous book, The Tales of Ensign Stål, the poem described a fictional woman named Lotta Svärd.

The Battle of Siikajoki is describet in the poem Adlercreutz in Runeberg's epic Tales of Ensign Stål.

The Tales of Ensign Stål ( Swedish original title: Fänrik Ståls sägner, Finnish: Vänrikki Stoolin tarinat, or year 2007 translation Vänrikki Stålin tarinat ) is an epic poem written in Swedish by the Finland-Swedish author Johan Ludvig Runeberg, the national poet of Finland.

From its publication to the mid-nineteenth century, The Tales of Ensign Stål was staple reading in both Finnish and Swedish schools.

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Tales concerning the Skjöldungs, possibly originating as early as the 6th century, were later used as a narrative basis in such texts as Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus and Hrólfs saga kraka.

From 1933 to 1936, Smith, Howard and Lovecraft were the leaders of the Weird Tales school of fiction and corresponded frequently, although they never met.

The etymology from ken – tauros, " piercing bull-stickers " was a Euhemerist suggestion in Palaephatus ' rationalizing text on Greek mythology, On Incredible Tales ( Περὶ ἀπίστων ): mounted archers from a village called Nephele eliminating a herd of bulls that were the scourge of Ixion's kingdom.

Jones also produced the 1979 film The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Movie which was a compilation of Jones ' best theatrical shorts ; Jones produced new Road Runner shorts for The Electric Company series and Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales ( 1979 ), and even newer shorts were made for Bugs Bunny's Bustin ' Out All Over ( 1980 ).

Many of the early strips were reprints of the Bull Tales cartoons, with some changes to the drawings and plots.

Mike and BD started Doonesbury as roommates ; they were not roommates in the Bull Tales.

The Brothers Grimm ( 1785 – 1863 & 1786 – 1859 ) not only wrote the popular Grimm's Fairy Tales, but were among the founding fathers of German philology and German studies.

For most of the 20th century, the definitive editions ( specifically At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels, Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, The Dunwich Horror and Others, and The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions ) of his prose fiction were published by Arkham House, a publisher originally started with the intent of publishing the work of Lovecraft, but which has since published a considerable amount of other literature as well.

The Eddys were fellow writers, and Mr. Eddy was a frequent contributor to Weird Tales.

The 1957 liquidation of the American News Company, then the primary distributor of pulp magazines, has sometimes been taken as marking the end of the " pulp era "; by that date, many of the famous pulps of the previous generation, including Black Mask, The Shadow, Doc Savage, and Weird Tales, were defunct.

Many classic science fiction and crime novels were originally serialized in pulp magazines such as Weird Tales, Amazing Stories, and Black Mask.

Sacramento's Tales of Terror, which mixed psychedelic rock into their hardcore sound, were an early influence on the grunge movement.

The first science fiction show for adults, was also its first fully science fictional anthology Tales of Tomorrow by ABC on August 3, 1951 lasting until 1953, as there were already similar shows for children.

Revised versions of " Irish Countess " and " Schalken " were reprinted in Le Fanu's first collection of short stories, the very rare Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery ( 1851 ).

Her earliest writings, some of which she adapted in Orsinian Tales and Malafrena, were non-fantastic stories of imaginary countries.

The older fairy tales were intended for an audience of adults, as well as children, but they were associated with children as early as the writings of the précieuses ; the Brothers Grimm titled their collection Children's and Household Tales, and the link with children has only grown stronger with time.

Tales were told or enacted dramatically, rather than written down, and handed down from generation to generation.

A new water supply, a gigantic system of sewers, new bridges, the opera house, and other public buildings, the inclusion of outlying districts – these were among the new prefect's achievements, accomplished by the aid of a bold handling of the public funds which called forth Jules Ferry's indictment, Les Comptes fantastiques de Haussmann, in 1867 ( a play on words between contes, stories or tales – as in Les contes d ' Hoffmann or Tales of Hoffmann, and comptes, accounts.

Although they consistently played " Tales of Brave Ulysses " and " Sunshine of Your Love ", several songs from Disraeli Gears were quickly dropped from performances in mid-1967, favouring longer jams instead of short pop songs.

Tales of combat with giants were a common feature in the folklore of Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

Audiences were certainly boosted by Joan Sutherland's performances with The Australian Opera in Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann.

" in Star Wars Tales explains that Anakin found the parts in a junk heap, and guessed they were very old ).

Copies of this guidebook were provided to the authors of the stories published in Tales of Riverworld and Quest To Riverworld, as this book summarizes the chronology, characters, geography and technical details of the Riverworld universe.

But this legend appears for the first time in only a much later account, " Tales of a Grandfather " by Sir Walter Scott, and may have originally been told about his companion-in-arms Sir James Douglas ( the " Black Douglas "), who had spent time hiding out in caves within his manor of Lintalee, which was then occupied by the English.

Geoffrey Chaucer also did much to popularize this view among speakers of English with his Canterbury Tales ( Wife of Bath's Prologue, v. 117-118 )

", one of his " South Sea Tales ", there is repeated a reference to “ a bastard lingo called " bech-de-mer ”, and much of the story's dialogue is conducted in it.

Epic poetry continued to develop with the addition of the mythologies of Northern Europe: Beowulf and the Norse sagas have much in common with Homer and Virgil's approaches to war and honor, while poems such as Dante's Divine Comedy and Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales take much different stylistic directions.

The city also plays an important part in Richard Kelly's 2007 film, Southland Tales, as well as his unproduced 1999 screenplay adaptation of Holes, both of which take place in the years following a nuclear attack on the city, where much of Kelly's family lives.

Five much later stories were collected in Tales from Earthsea ( Harcourt, 2001 ), where three were original.

Their third LP, Tales from the Twilight World ( 1990 ), had a much more melodic and " epic " feeling, with usage of choir and classical music influence.

The same story pattern appears in numerous other cultures: Tom Tit Tot in England ( from English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs ), Whuppity Stoorie in Scotland ( from Robert Chambers's Popular Rhymes of Scotland ), Gilitrutt in Iceland, Joaidane جعيدان in Arabic ( he who talks too much ), Khlamushka Хламушка ( junker ) in Russia, Rampelnik in Czech Republic, Martinko Klingáč in Slovakia, Ruidoquedito ( meaning " little noise ") in South America, Pancimanci in Hungary ( from A Csodafurulya by Kolozsvari Grandpierre Emil ), Cvilidreta ( whine-screamer ) in Croatia, Tremotino in Italy, Ootz-li Gootz-li עו ּ ץ-לי גו ּ ץ-לי in Israel ( a compact and rhymy touch to the original sentence and meaning of the story, " He advised me and then turned me into a joke "), Daiku to Oniroku ( daiku means " a carpenter ", to means " and ", and Oniroku is an ogre's name ), or " 大工と鬼六 " in Japan.

In actuality, the premise of Tales bears a much stronger resemblance to the 1939 film Only Angels Have Wings and the 1944 film To Have and Have Not.

The Middle English of Le Morte D ' Arthur is much closer to Early Modern English than the Middle English of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

The college also has a theatre company, the Hill College Theatre Company, who put on productions several times a year, recently performing the Canterbury Tales and Translations, The Vagina Monologues and A Midsummer Night's Dream to much critical acclaim.

I suppose I didn ’ t want people to be thrown by the change in the format, as this is a first-person novel unlike the third-person format of the Tales of the City ... Having said that, it is still very much a continuation of the saga and I think I realized it was very much time for me to come back to this territory.

The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings take place entirely in Middle-earth, as does much of The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales.

Since the work of John M. Manly and Edith Rickert in compiling their Text of the Canterbury Tales ( 1940 ), the Hengwrt manuscript has had a much higher degree of prominence in attempts to reconstruct Chaucer's text, displacing the previously prominent Ellesmere and Harley MS. 7334.

He did not show much interest in his studies, but in 1910 produced his first book, Maroon Tales, a collection of short stories about university life.

* Tales of Beatrix Potter-Michael Balfe and others, but also included much original music by Lanchbery

Richard Kelly's style is composed of Steadicam based tracking shots and camera movement in general, satirical elements ( as seen sparsely in Donnie Darko and much more prominently in Southland Tales ), comedy, drama, and enigmatic plots.

Without wasting much time just after three months, Antim Grahan released their full length album Tales of the Darkened Woods.

Although difficult to date like most of Chaucer's tales, the Physician ’ s tale is usually regarded as an early work of Chaucer probably written before much of the rest of the Canterbury Tales was begun.

In 1964 it was featured in Kite Tales, the newsletter of the American Kitefliers Association ; as a result it became much more widely known.

Unaipon, despite coming from South Australia, is not mentioned in the works of the Jindyworobaks, so it is hard to say how much of an influence, Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines was.

Writing segments for " Simpsons Tall Tales " was much different from normal episodes ; for example, the writers only had one day to outline each segment's plot, and three to four days to write the first draft of each script, which is much less time than the writers usually get for an episode.