The Kalevala, Volume 2
by Elias Lönnrot
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Excerpt from Kalevala, the Land of Heroes, Vol. 2 In his brain the notion entered, That at Pohjola was wedding, And a drinking-bout in secret. Mouth and head awry then twisting, And his black beard all disordered, In his rage the blood departed From the cheeks of him unhappy, And at once he left his ploughing, 'mid the field he left the ploughshare, On the spot his horse he mounted, And he rode directly homeward, To his dearest mother's dwelling, To his dear and aged mother. And he said as show more he approached her, And he called, as he was coming. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. show lessTags
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I reviews volume one of Finland’s Epic poem separately, so I’m not going to repeat my thoughts on meter or translation. I’ll just briefly comment on the actual story content. To be honest, I would describe most of it as tediously repetitive. After the first few instances of one of the three recurring characters trying to construct something marvelous/magical or trying to win a (usually quite petty) dispute by singing a mighty spell (usually failing two or three times and succeeding on the third or fourth time), it gets old. Details vary, but not enough. A few departures into other story lines provide a degree of interest (e.g. Kullervo’s story is clearly a major inspiration for Tolkien’s Turin, and the final story appears to show more be about Christianity replacing paganism). As a fan of mythological narrative poetry, I’m not mad that I read it, but I don’t know if I would ever do so again. show less
This translation ably attempts to capture the rhythm of the Finnish original.
Got most of the way through Vol. 1, but didn't make it to Vol. 2
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- Canonical title
- The Kalevala, Volume 2
- Original publication date
- 1838-1849
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Poetry
- DDC/MDS
- 894 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature Literatures of Altaic, Uralic, Hyperborean, Dravidian languages; literatures of miscellaneous languages of south Asia
- LCC
- PH324 .E5 .K5 — Language and Literature Uralic languages. Basque language Uralic. Basque Finnish
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- Reviews
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- Languages
- English, Finnish, French
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
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