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The Kalevala

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The Kalevala	comment	The Kalevala (or "Land of Heroes") is an epic poem and book based on folk poetry collected by Elias Lönnrot. It is considered the national epic of Finland. Undeniably the most influential work of literature there, it's credited with initiating a national awakening that eventually led to Finland's independence and preserving the Finnish language. The Tales Of Ensign Stål is probably the only piece of Finnish literature that even comes close to the status of the Kalevala. It also inspired others, such as J. R. R. Tolkien, Michael Moorcock and Don Rosa, so it's no coincidence that the stories of Túrin Turambar and Elric of Melniboné have many similarities to Kullervo.The Kalevala is, first and foremost, the story of heroes and adventurers in mythic Finland, and the greatest of them all is Väinämöinen, the shaman hero born 700 years old to the Maiden of Air and gifted with a magic singing voice. There are great journeys, heroic deeds, tragic mix-ups, evil witches, magic poetry and something called a Sampo. But some of the best aspects are the delight in nature metaphors and the allusions to everyday Finnish life. The flair for natural beauty can delight even someone who doesn't take to the plot.The Kalevala, as composed by Elias Lönnrot, is a product of the 19th century (published 1849). Lönnrot's source materials go back much farther; how much farther is not exactly known — the first description of Finnish Mythology is that by bishop Mikael Agricola in 1551. It is thought that many of the folk traditions that Lönnrot cast into the Kalevala are Older Than Print, though Lönnrot modified them to weld them into a single coherent narrative.Among more direct adaptations of the Kalevala are several of the musical compositions of Finland's greatest composer, Jean Sibelius, of which the best known is probably Tuonelan joutsen — "The Swan of Tuonela" (or, if you prefer, "The Swan of the Underworld"). The work also inspired many of the canvases of the painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela, including Sammon puolustus, "The Defence of the Sampo", used above as the page image. Less happily, though more hilariously, it was made into the joint Finnish/Russian film Sampo, AKA The Day the Earth Froze, featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000.Perhaps the best-known translation of the Kalevala into English is that of William Fortsell Kirby (which gives the page quote). English-speakers have probably become familiar with the meter of the Kalevala more from its use by Longfellow in The Song of Hiawatha ("By the shores of Gitchee Gumee...") — or perhaps the parodies of the same by Lewis Carroll and others, such as "Hiawatha's Mitten-Making" by George A. Strong:God help you if you confuse it with the flash game Legend of Kalevala, or the iOS puzzle game, Heroes of Kalevala.See also the Estonian national epic, Kalevipoeg.
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The Kalevala / int_1e8681db	type	Noble Bird of Prey
The Kalevala / int_1e8681db	comment	Noble Bird of Prey: Eagle saves Väinämöinen from drowning.
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The Kalevala / int_1f75bca8	type	Wizard Duel
The Kalevala / int_1f75bca8	comment	Wizard Duel: Joukahainen, a young Hot-Blooded wizard, hears stories about Väinämöinen's might and challenges him to a one. It predictably ends in a Curb-Stomp Battle.
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The Kalevala / int_347e35d6	type	Grim Up North
The Kalevala / int_347e35d6	comment	Grim Up North: Pohjola, the Northland, is described as a harsh, cold place with little comfort.
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The Kalevala / int_366e6748	type	RevengeSVP
The Kalevala / int_366e6748	comment	RevengeSVP: Lemminkäinen gatecrashes the wedding feast in the Northland, where they successfully tried to kill him last time when he himself wooed the Northland Maiden. He soon provokes the bride's father, the Master of the Northland, into a swordfight duel, which ends lethally for the latter.
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The Kalevala / int_37fcf16	type	Death Is Cheap
The Kalevala / int_37fcf16	comment	Death Is Cheap: The beginning of the Kullervo arc establishes that all of Kullervo's clan is dead except Kullervo's mother. Yet after Kullervo has run away from slavery, he suddenly discovers that his parents, as well as a brother and a sister, are alive. No explanation is given of how they did survive, why everyone thought they were dead, or how his mother escaped from slavery. But it's good for the plot.
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The Kalevala / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Kalevala / int_3d699462	comment	In modern Finnish "singing/playing into a swamp" means Curb Stomping someone in a debate or competition thoroughly. In the epic it means just what it sounds like; Väinämöinen sings such a powerful song that the earth swallows Joukahainen, until he agrees to pay any price to be released.
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The Kalevala / int_3ff34221	type	To Hell and Back
The Kalevala / int_3ff34221	comment	To Hell and Back: Väinämöinen travels to Tuonela, the realm of the dead, and escapes even though they try to keep him. Almost true for Lemminkäinen, too, when he hunts for the Swan of Tuonela, but Lemminkäinen does not enter Tuonela proper.
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The Kalevala / int_441ccbad	type	Talking Weapon
The Kalevala / int_441ccbad	comment	Talking Weapon: Kullervo's black sword, which indicates it is perfectly willing to kill him. This is possibly the Ur-Example of this trope.
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The Kalevala / int_4aa3c552	type	Animorphism
The Kalevala / int_4aa3c552	comment	Animorphism: Väinämöinen transforms into a snake to escape the underworld.
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The Kalevala / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
The Kalevala / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: Lönnrot did a lot of work to combine the numerous myths into one single story, including dropping out different interpretations of the characters and changing when certain events took place. For example, Ilmarinen and Väinämöinen go from being full-fledged gods as described by earlier sources into more human god-heroes.
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The Kalevala / int_5bca5a56	type	Surprise Incest
The Kalevala / int_5bca5a56	comment	Surprise Incest: The girl Kullervo seduces turns out to be his long-lost sister.
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The Kalevala / int_6331ba26	type	Plot Hole
The Kalevala / int_6331ba26	comment	Plot Hole: Due to having been compiled from folk legends sung around the country, the Kalevala has several plot holes as a result of combining different versions. For example, Kullervo eventually finds out that his parents are alive, even though they were killed by Untamo when he was an infant.
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The Kalevala / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
The Kalevala / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: After his wife's death, Ilmarinen makes himself a new one out of gold and silver, but discards her soon afterwards.
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The Kalevala / int_688afa6a	type	Evil Uncle
The Kalevala / int_688afa6a	comment	Evil Uncle: Untamo, Kullervo's uncle, killed his entire family (who somehow still survived).
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The Kalevala / int_68b79850	type	Born into Slavery
The Kalevala / int_68b79850	comment	Born into Slavery: Kullervo is the last son of Kalervo, and her mother was enslaved by Untamo before he was born.
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The Kalevala / int_6a2ae11f	type	Improbable Weapon User
The Kalevala / int_6a2ae11f	comment	Improbable Weapon User: The wet-behind-the-ears Lappish guy whom Lemminkäinen insulted, kills him by running a viper through him. Man, that's just awesome.
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The Kalevala / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Kalevala / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Aino drowns herself rather than marry Väinämöinen. Kullervo kills himself with his sword.
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The Kalevala / int_6dc10d3a	type	Ultimate Blacksmith
The Kalevala / int_6dc10d3a	comment	Ultimate Blacksmith: Ilmarinen forged the sky itself, and during the epic creates among other things the magical Sampo. However, he does have his limits: when Louhi steals the sun and the moon away he tries and fails to build new ones in their place.
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The Kalevala / int_70376f74	type	I Am One of Those, Too
The Kalevala / int_70376f74	comment	I Am One of Those, Too: Joukahainen claims he was present when the world was created. Too bad he tells this to Väinämöinen who actually was there.
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The Kalevala / int_71748a39	type	Named by the Adaptation
The Kalevala / int_71748a39	comment	Named by the Adaptation: The sister of Joukahainen was not named in the original songs and stories. The name Aino comes from the word "aino" (in plain language usually "ainoa") which means "only one", as in, Joukahainen's only sister. Despite this, the name is now very popular in Finland.
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The Kalevala / int_7289b368	type	Idiot Hero
The Kalevala / int_7289b368	comment	Idiot Hero: Lemminkäinen isn't very bright. He makes decisions very irrationally, without even a thought for consequences: When Louhi tasks him of killing the Swan of Tuonela, he agrees to do it even though it will anger the cthonic deities who proceed to rip him to pieces. After his resurrection, he still returns to Pohjola for the Maiden's wedding and kills the Master in a duel thus getting the wrath of Louhi and her people on him.
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The Kalevala / int_7332c94f	type	Suicide by Sea
The Kalevala / int_7332c94f	comment	Suicide by Sea: Aino drowns herself because she does not want to marry Väinämöinen.
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The Kalevala / int_78255ad7	type	Passing the Torch
The Kalevala / int_78255ad7	comment	Passing the Torch: The book ends with Väinämöinen sailing away and implied-to-be-Jesus becoming the king of Kalevala.
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The Kalevala / int_7ca17040	type	Cosmic Egg
The Kalevala / int_7ca17040	comment	Cosmic Egg: In the opening's Creation Myth the world is created from seven eggs laid by a duck.
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The Kalevala / int_7e676cdf	type	Engagement Challenge
The Kalevala / int_7e676cdf	comment	Engagement Challenge: Väinämöinen, Ilmarinen and Lemminkäinen all have to complete near-impossible tasks in order to marry the Maiden of Pohjola, Louhi's daughter. Eventually, it's Ilmarinen to whom she takes a liking.
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The Kalevala / int_7f67e11	type	The Night That Never Ends
The Kalevala / int_7f67e11	comment	The Night That Never Ends: In vengeance for the loss of the Sampo, Louhi steals the Sun and the Moon and locks them up inside a mountain.
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The Kalevala / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
The Kalevala / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: Joukahainen promises that Väinämöinen can marry his sister Aino. His mother is just happy for having a powerful sorcerer as a son-in-law. Aino doesn't take it as well and is Driven to Suicide. Later, Louhi strongly suggests her daughter to marry Väinämöinen, but doesn't object when she chooses Ilmarinen instead. She is forced to choose, though.
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The Kalevala / int_81ae2774	type	Evil Matriarch
The Kalevala / int_81ae2774	comment	Evil Matriarch: Louhi, the Mistress of Pohjola, is the primary antagonist of the story as well as the leader of her people, having many sons and daughters.
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The Kalevala / int_8296f61d	type	King in the Mountain
The Kalevala / int_8296f61d	comment	King in the Mountain: The Kalevala ends with a mysterious child being declared king of Kalevala (a thinly veiled allegory on Christ and the conversion of Finland to Christianity). The disgruntled Väinämöinen sails away in his boat to an unknown destination, leaving only his kantele behind, but not without the promise that he will some day return.
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The Kalevala / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
The Kalevala / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: With help from Ilmarinen and the power of the sun carried by a bee, Lemminkäinen is resurrected by his old mother after being killed by the lord of Tuonela.
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The Kalevala / int_8cf75a5c	type	Lipstick-and-Load Montage
The Kalevala / int_8cf75a5c	comment	Lipstick-and-Load Montage: A male example, as an entire chapter is devoted to Ilmarinen the smith bathing and dressing up to go court the Maiden of Pohja.
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The Kalevala / int_8d718b9e	type	Bears Are Bad News
The Kalevala / int_8d718b9e	comment	Bears Are Bad News: Ilmarinen's wife is killed by a bunch of bears and wolves that Kullervo hexed her cattle into after she made him destroy his knife (the only memory he had of his family).
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The Kalevala / int_92f674e5	type	Revenge
The Kalevala / int_92f674e5	comment	Revenge: Like in many myths, revenge is a recurring motif in the Kalevala; but it is an overarching theme in the story of Kullervo, who is more than anything driven by his (eventually self-destructive) desire for revenge.
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The Kalevala / int_94b8db78	type	Diseased Name
The Kalevala / int_94b8db78	comment	Diseased Name: Loviatar's nine sons, fathered by either the wind or the sea-monster Iku-Turso, named Colic, Pleurisy, Fever, Ulcer, Plague, Consumption, Gout, Sterility, and Cancer.
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The Kalevala / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
The Kalevala / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: What is the Sampo actually, and what exactly does it do?
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The Kalevala / int_a1d4e0a8	type	Genocide Backfire
The Kalevala / int_a1d4e0a8	comment	Genocide Backfire: Untamo killsnote They somehow survive it, though. his brother Kalervo and his family over petty neighborhood squabbles, leaving only a pregnant woman alive. The woman gives birth to Kullervo, who later kills Untamo in vengeance.
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The Kalevala / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
The Kalevala / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The Sampo is a powerful magical artifact that everyone covets, but it is never actually described. It has been depicted as pretty much everything from a sword to a pitcher. The most common interpretation is that Sampo is a mill that produces money, grain and salt out of thin air. The mythological Sampo (as opposed to the Sampo from The Kalevala) is most often interpreted as a pillar that holds the sky up (with Pohjantähti (Polaris, the North Star) as the pin that fastens it to the sky). That would also relate to the mill imagery as both turn around. Supporting this theory is the alternate name "sammas", an old word meaning pillar, and the connection to the north where the these kinds of world trees and pillars are often located in northern mythology (understandably so, since in the northern hemisphere the sky appears to spin around its northernmost point) and the references to the multicoloured lid which is a phrase also connected to the sky (which is even in modern Finnish often symbolically referred to as a "lid"). Also, both the sky and Sampo were made by Ilmarinen. Apparently there are also songs that refer to the "roots" of Sampo, connecting it to the world tree idea. (There is also a separate World Tree type of story, or at least something close, in The Kalevala.) However even if this theory is true, it was in later folk stories reinterpreted as an object and the original meaning was lost. In any case it's an allegory for good fortune.
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The Kalevala / int_ad8dbae4	type	Public Domain Artifact
The Kalevala / int_ad8dbae4	comment	Public Domain Artifact: The Sampo.
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The Kalevala / int_b1c7f430	type	Sea Monster
The Kalevala / int_b1c7f430	comment	Sea Monster: Iku-Turso. Also, the giant pike from whose jawbone Väinämöinen makes a kantele - a dulcimer-like musical instrument.
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The Kalevala / int_b3c0ed0c	type	Spoof Aesop
The Kalevala / int_b3c0ed0c	comment	Spoof Aesop: When Ilmarinen makes his golden replacement bride, she is extremely cold and not truly alive, and so he gets rid of her. Väinämöinen's words of wisdom? "Let no man ever again marry a woman made of gold or silver."
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The Kalevala / int_b5049d76	type	Added Alliterative Appeal
The Kalevala / int_b5049d76	comment	Added Alliterative Appeal: In Finnish, alliteration is one of the main characteristics of the Kalevala meter. For example the opening quote of this page (and also the first lines of the Kalevala):
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The Kalevala / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Kalevala / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Joukahainen decides to challenge Väinämöinen, the god of singing, into a Magic Music Wizard Duel. It goes about as well as you think.
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The Kalevala / int_b5914444	type	Noodle Implements
The Kalevala / int_b5914444	comment	Noodle Implements: The Sampo is the perfect MacGuffin because, thanks to the ambiguity of the poems Lönnrot was collecting, none of the poem's readers have been able to conclusively figure out what the hell it is.
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The Kalevala / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Kalevala / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Slave boy Kullervo's knife breaks on a stone that Ilmarinen's wife has baked into his bread. The knife being the only possession he still had from his family, he snaps and summons packs of bears and wolves from the forest, which tear the jerkass mistress to pieces.
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The Kalevala / int_be102b6a	type	GÃ¶tterdÃ¤mmerung
The Kalevala / int_be102b6a	comment	Götterdämmerung: The Kalevala ends with Christ being appointed King of Finland, and Väinämöinen sailing away to an unknown land across the sea.
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The Kalevala / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
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The Kalevala / int_c3fbac64	type	Bestiality Is Depraved
The Kalevala / int_c3fbac64	comment	Bestiality Is Depraved: Wet-behind-the-ears Lapp boned all the mares in his household. Yeesh.
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The Kalevala / int_c928d01d	type	Magic Music
The Kalevala / int_c928d01d	comment	Magic Music: as used by the sage Väinämöinen, whose kantele is made from the jawbone of a giant pike. He's so good, he once almost sang Joukahainen into a swamp. (It takes special mythological training to understand just what that's supposed to mean.) In modern Finnish "singing/playing into a swamp" means Curb Stomping someone in a debate or competition thoroughly. In the epic it means just what it sounds like; Väinämöinen sings such a powerful song that the earth swallows Joukahainen, until he agrees to pay any price to be released.
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The Kalevala / int_ca85e684	type	Power Trio
The Kalevala / int_ca85e684	comment	Power Trio: Väinämöinen, Ilmarinen, and Lemminkäinen, when they finally team up to retrieve the Sampo from Pohjola.note The "Freudian" interpretation would probably go: Väinämöinen - Superego, Ilmarinen - Ego, Lemminkäinen - Id.
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The Kalevala / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
The Kalevala / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Kullervo does this a lot. First he hexes a bunch of wolves and bears to tear apart Ilmarinen's wife after she torments him too much, and at the end of his story, he slaughters all of Untamo's clan for the crimes committed against his own. Also Louhi after Lemminkäinen killed her husband in duel forcing Lemminkäinen to hide in a remote island.
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The Kalevala / int_cf1e5580	type	Wizard Beard
The Kalevala / int_cf1e5580	comment	Wizard Beard: Väinämöinen has a long white beard.
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The Kalevala / int_d250df04	type	Creation Myth
The Kalevala / int_d250df04	comment	Creation Myth: Kalevala opens with one, with the primordial goddess Ilmatar and a duck creating the world into the eternal sea and the former giving birth to the god-hero Väinämöinen.
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The Kalevala / int_d2a11313	type	Death of the Old Gods
The Kalevala / int_d2a11313	comment	Death of the Old Gods: The last canto of the epic, Marjatan poika, ends the epic with a clear allegory of Jesus being born and banishing the old god Väinämöinen from the lands of Väinölä.
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The Kalevala / int_d4d8d831	type	Feuding Families
The Kalevala / int_d4d8d831	comment	Feuding Families: Kalervo and Untamo. The latter destroys the former.
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The Kalevala / int_d89c1e6	type	Longest Pregnancy Ever
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The Kalevala / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
The Kalevala / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Louhi (the Mistress of Pohjola) is capable of many magic feats, including turning into a giant eagle Kokko and attacking the heroes of Väinölä when they try to flee with Sampo. Qualifies also as Roaring Rampage of Revenge, as Lemminkäinen killed her husband, Master of Pohjola, in duel.
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The Kalevala / int_db126a0b	type	World Tree
The Kalevala / int_db126a0b	comment	World Tree: The great oak that grows so big that it covers the sky and must be cut down. After some failed tries a little man dressed in metal rises from the sea, grows into a giant and finally chops it down.
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The Kalevala / int_dd3d1f69	type	Wicked Witch
The Kalevala / int_dd3d1f69	comment	Wicked Witch: Louhi, Mistress of Pohjola, also known as Hag of the Northland.
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The Kalevala / int_de9cad68	type	Pike Peril
The Kalevala / int_de9cad68	comment	Pike Peril: When the heroes of Väinölä sail to Pohjola in order to recover the magical Sampo they are stopped by a giant monstrous pike. Both Lemminkäinen and Ilmarinen fail to kill it, but Väinämöinen manages to slice it to pieces and makes the world's first kantele from its jawbone.
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The Kalevala / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
The Kalevala / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Lemminkäinen is a combination of epic war-heroes Kaukomieli and Ahti Saarelainen.
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The Kalevala / int_eea93c96	type	Blow You Away
The Kalevala / int_eea93c96	comment	Blow You Away: Väinämöinen makes winds to blow Ilmarinen to Pohjola.
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The Kalevala / int_eea96e78	type	Swallowed Whole
The Kalevala / int_eea96e78	comment	Swallowed Whole: Väinämöinen gets swallowed by giant Antero Vipunen. It doesn't last long as Väinämöinen causes such a riot in Vipunen's stomach he barfs him up.
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The Kalevala / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
The Kalevala / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: The Northland Maiden, Louhi's daughter, was a recurring character in Lönnrot's source material; however, the folk songs contradicted each other in what was her eventual fate. Lönnrot solved the problem by giving Louhi two daughters and thus, there are two Northland Maidens, the second one only appearing after the first one is out of the story.
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The Kalevala / int_fbc18509	type	Oral Tradition
The Kalevala / int_fbc18509	comment	Oral Tradition: Lönnrot created the Kalevala by combining folk ballads which had been passed down from singer to singer for centuries, possibly more.
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The Kalevala / int_fc33ff16	type	One-Winged Angel
The Kalevala / int_fc33ff16	comment	One-Winged Angel: Louhi turns into a kokko (sort of a big mythical eagle) to hunt down the heroes of Kalevala who have stolen the Sampo.
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