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The Kalevala
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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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Noble Bird of Prey | |
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Noble Bird of Prey: Eagle saves Väinämöinen from drowning. | |
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Wizard Duel | |
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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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Grim Up North | |
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Grim Up North: Pohjola, the Northland, is described as a harsh, cold place with little comfort. | |
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RevengeSVP | |
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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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Death Is Cheap | |
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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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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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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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To Hell and Back | |
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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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Talking Weapon | |
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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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Animorphism | |
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Animorphism: Väinämöinen transforms into a snake to escape the underworld. | |
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The Kalevala / int_5a40d6a | type |
Adaptation Distillation | |
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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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Surprise Incest | |
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Surprise Incest: The girl Kullervo seduces turns out to be his long-lost sister. | |
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Plot Hole | |
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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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Replacement Goldfish | |
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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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Evil Uncle | |
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Evil Uncle: Untamo, Kullervo's uncle, killed his entire family (who somehow still survived). | |
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Born into Slavery | |
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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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Improbable Weapon User | |
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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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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: Aino drowns herself rather than marry Väinämöinen. Kullervo kills himself with his sword. | |
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Ultimate Blacksmith | |
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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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I Am One of Those, Too | |
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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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Named by the Adaptation | |
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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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Idiot Hero | |
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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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Suicide by Sea | |
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Suicide by Sea: Aino drowns herself because she does not want to marry Väinämöinen. | |
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Passing the Torch | |
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Passing the Torch: The book ends with Väinämöinen sailing away and implied-to-be-Jesus becoming the king of Kalevala. | |
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Cosmic Egg | |
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Cosmic Egg: In the opening's Creation Myth the world is created from seven eggs laid by a duck. | |
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Engagement Challenge | |
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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 Night That Never Ends | |
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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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Arranged Marriage | |
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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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Evil Matriarch | |
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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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King in the Mountain | |
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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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Back from the Dead | |
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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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Lipstick-and-Load Montage | |
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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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Bears Are Bad News | |
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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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Revenge | |
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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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Diseased Name | |
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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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Riddle for the Ages | |
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Riddle for the Ages: What is the Sampo actually, and what exactly does it do? | |
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Genocide Backfire | |
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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 | |
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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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Public Domain Artifact | |
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Public Domain Artifact: The Sampo. | |
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Sea Monster | |
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Sea Monster: Iku-Turso. Also, the giant pike from whose jawbone Väinämöinen makes a kantele - a dulcimer-like musical instrument. | |
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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 |
Götterdämmerung | |
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 | |
The Kalevala / int_beb9a361 | comment |
Anti-Hero: Kullervo is a tragic figure willing to kill anyone who stands in his path of revenge. It goes to the point of almost crossing over to Sociopathic 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 | |
The Kalevala / int_d89c1e6 | comment |
Longest Pregnancy Ever: Ilmatar carried Väinämöinen for centuries. | |
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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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