Kalevala : the Epic Poem of Finland — Complete. Anonymous

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СКАЧАТЬ RUNE XLIX.

       RESTORATION OF THE SUN AND MOON.

       RUNE L.

       MARIATTA—WAINAMOINEN'S DEPARTURE.

       GLOSSARY.

       THE END.

PREFACE

       Table of Contents

      PROEM

       RUNE I. Birth of Wainamoinen

       RUNE II. Wainamoinen's Sowing

       RUNE III. Wainamoinen and Youkahainen

       RUNE IV. The Fate of Aino

       RUNE V. Wainamoinen's Lamentation

       RUNE VI. Wainamoinen's Hapless Journey

       RUNE VII. Wainamoinen's Rescue

       RUNE VIII. Maiden of the Rainbow

       RUNE IX. Origin of Iron

       RUNE X. Ilmarinen forges the Sampo

       RUNE XI. Lemminkainen's Lament

       RUNE XII. Kyllikki's Broken Vow

       RUNE XIII. Lemminkainen's Second Wooing

       RUNE XIV. Death of Lemminkainen

       RUNE XV. Lemminkainen's Restoration

       RUNE XVI. Wainainoinen's Boat-building

       RUNE XVII. Wainamoinen finds the Lost Word

       RUNE XVIII. The Rival Suitors

       RUNE XIX. Ilmarinen's Wooing

       RUNE XX. The Brewing of Beer

       RUNE XXI. Ilmarinen's Wedding-feast

       RUNE XXII. The Bride's Farewell

       RUNE XXIII. Osmotar, the Bride-adviser

       RUNE XXIV. The Bride's Farewell

       RUNE XXV. Wainamoinen's Wedding-songs

       RUNE XXVI. Origin of the Serpent

       RUNE XXVII. The Unwelcome Guest

       RUNE XXVIII. The Mother's Counsel

       RUNE XXIX. The Isle of Refuge

       RUNE XXX. The Frost-fiend

       RUNE XXXI. Kullerwoinen, Son of Evil

       RUNE XXXII. Kullervo as a Shepherd

       RUNE XXXIII. Kullervo and the Cheat-cake

       RUNE XXXIV. Kullervo finds his Tribe-folk

       RUNE XXXV. Kullervo's Evil Deeds

       RUNE XXXVI. Kullerwoinen's Victory and Death

       RUNE XXXVII Ilmarinen's Bride of Gold

       RUNE XXXVIII. Ilmarinen's Fruitless Wooing

       RUNE XXXIX. Wainamoinen's Sailing

       RUNE XL. Birth of the Harp

       RUNE XLI. Wainamoinen's Harp-songs

       RUNE XLII. Capture of the Sampo

       RUNE XLIII. The Sampo lost in the Sea

       RUNE XLIV. Birth of the Second Harp

       RUNE XLV. Birth of the Nine Diseases

       RUNE XLVI. Otso the Honey-eater

       RUNE XLVII. Louhi steals Sun, Moon, and Fire

       RUNE XLVIII. Capture of the Fire-fish

       RUNE XLIX. Restoration of the Sun and Moon

       RUNE L. Mariatta—Wainamoinen's Departure

      EPILOGUE

      PREFACE.

       Table of Contents

      The following translation was undertaken from a desire to lay before the English-speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A brief description of this peculiar people, and of their ethical, linguistic, social, and religious life, seems to be called for here in order that the following poem may be the better understood.

      Finland (Finnish, Suomi or Suomenmaa, the swampy region, of which Finland, or Fen-land is said to be a Swedish translation,) is at present a Grand-Duchy in the north-western part of the Russian empire, bordering on Olenetz, Archangel, Sweden, Norway, and the Baltic Sea, its area being more than 144,000 square miles, and inhabited by some 2,000,000 of people, the last remnants of a race driven back from the East, at a very early day, by advancing tribes. The Finlanders live in a land of marshes and mountains, lakes and rivers, seas, gulfs, islands, and inlets, and they call themselves Suomilainen, Fen-dwellers. The climate is more severe than that of Sweden. The mean yearly temperature in the north is about 27°F., and about 38°F., at Helsingfors, the capital of Finland. In the southern districts the winter is seven months long, and in the northern provinces the sun disappears entirely during the months of December and January.

      The inhabitants are strong and hardy, with bright, intelligent faces, high cheek-bones, yellow hair in early life, and with brown hair in mature age. With regard to their social habits, morals, and manners, all travellers are unanimous in speaking well of them. Their temper is universally mild; they are slow to anger, and when angry they keep silence. They are happy-hearted, affectionate to one another, and honorable and honest in their dealings with strangers. They are a cleanly people, being much given to the use of vapor-baths. This trait is a conspicuous note of their character from their earliest history to the present day. Often in the runes of The Kalevala reference is made to the "cleansing and healing virtues of the vapors of the heated bathroom."

      The skull of the Finn belongs to the brachycephalic (short-headed) class of Retzius. Indeed the Finn-organization has generally been regarded as Mongol, though Mongol of a modified type. His color is swarthy, and his eyes are gray. He is not inhospitable, but not over-easy of access; nor is he a friend of new fashions. Steady, careful, laborious, he is valuable in the mine, valuable in the field, valuable oil shipboard, and, withal, a brave soldier on land.

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