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The Kalevala

by Elias Lönnrot

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15 h 24 min · 52 parts

  1. Preface

    55:53

  2. RUNE I. Birth of Wainamoinen

    9:49

  3. RUNE II. Wainamoinen's Sowing

    14:55

  4. RUNE III. Wainamoinen and Joukahainen

    22:04

  5. RUNE IV. The Fate of Aino

    19:05

  6. RUNE V. Wainamoinen's Lamentation

    8:30

  7. RUNE VI. Wainamoinen's Hapless Journey

    8:47

  8. RUNE VII. Wainamoinen's Rescue

    13:11

  9. RUNE VIII. Maiden of the Rainbow

    9:38

  10. RUNE IX. Origin of Iron

    18:57

  11. RUNE X. Ilmarinen Forges the Sampo

    17:52

  12. RUNE XI. Lemminkainen's Lament

    19:52

  13. RUNE XII. Kyllikki's Broken Vow

    24:06

  14. RUNE XIII. Lemminkainen's Second Wooing

    11:35

  15. RUNE XIV. Death of Lemminkainen

    22:05

  16. RUNE XV. Lemminkainen's Restoration

    30:47

  17. RUNE XVI. Wainainoinen's Boat-building

    17:47

  18. RUNE XVII. Wainamoinen finds the Lost Word

    22:29

  19. RUNE XVIII. The Rival Suitors

    25:17

  20. RUNE XIX. Ilmarinen's Wooing

    19:50

  21. RUNE XX. The Brewing of Beer

    26:02

  22. RUNE XXI. Ilmarinen's Wedding-feast

    15:58

  23. RUNE XXII. The Bride's Farewell

    17:07

  24. RUNE XXIII. Osmotar, the Bride-adviser

    35:33

  25. RUNE XXIV. The Bride's Farewell

    21:18

  26. RUNE XXV. Wainamoinen's Wedding-songs

    24:24

  27. RUNE XXVI. Origin of the Serpent

    35:44

  28. RUNE XXVII. The Unwelcome Guest

    17:19

  29. RUNE XXVIII. The Mother's Counsel

    11:32

  30. RUNE XXIX. The Isle of Refuge

    26:03

  31. RUNE XXX. The Frost-fiend

    16:14

  32. RUNE XXXI. Kullerwoinen, Son of Evil

    16:46

  33. RUNE XXXII. Kullervo as a Shepherd

    17:40

  34. RUNE XXXIII. Kullervo and the Cheat-cake

    10:41

  35. RUNE XXXIV. Kullervo finds his Tribe-folk

    9:02

  36. RUNE XXXV. Kullervo's Evil Deeds

    14:11

  37. RUNE XXXVI. Kullerwoinen's Victory and Death

    12:33

  38. RUNE XXXVII Ilmarinen's Bride of Gold

    10:55

  39. RUNE XXXVIII. Ilmarinen's Fruitless Wooing

    12:50

  40. RUNE XXXIX. Wainamoinen's Sailing

    13:46

  41. RUNE XL. Birth of the Harp

    11:12

  42. RUNE XLI. Wainamoinen's Harp-songs

    13:29

  43. RUNE XLII. Capture of the Sampo

    20:40

  44. RUNE XLIII. The Sampo lost in the Sea

    15:04

  45. RUNE XLIV. Birth of the Second Harp

    12:34

  46. RUNE XLV. Birth of the Nine Diseases

    11:25

  47. RUNE XLVI. Otso the Honey-eater

    21:48

  48. RUNE XLVII. Louhi steals Sun, Moon, and Fire

    14:07

  49. RUNE XLVIII. Capture of the Fire-fish

    12:30

  50. RUNE XLIX. Restoration of the Sun and Moon

    12:30

  51. RUNE L. Mariatta (Wainamoinen's Departure)

    16:49

  52. Epilogue

    4:07

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Finland's national epic was assembled by Elias Lonnrot, a country doctor who spent years walking through Karelia and the eastern woodlands writing down the old sung poems of farmers and folk singers, then stitched them into a single continuous story. It runs from the creation of the world through the deeds of the wise singer Vainamoinen, the smith Ilmarinen, and the reckless Lemminkainen, and turns on the forging and later theft of the Sampo, a magical mill that grinds out grain, salt, and gold. Its rolling runic meter later shaped Longfellow's 'Hiawatha' and fed Tolkien's imagination. This is John Martin Crawford's English translation.

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Elias Lönnrot

Elias Lonnrot (1802-1884) was a Finnish physician, philologist, and folklorist who collected oral poetry across Karelia and Finland. By weaving those songs together he created the Kalevala, a work central to Finnish national identity and the modern Finnish language. He also compiled dictionaries and folk-song collections.

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First published
1835
Reading time
About 10 hours
Pages
630
Language
English
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