Estonia just keeps striking me as Finland, but without the sweet music and literature. Seriously the Kalevala is hardcore. I really hope it's not super popular with fascists.
Granted, I'm American. Any culture we have we quickly try and stamp out. I'm genuinely shocked my family held onto some of our Polish traditions.
You got me wanting to buy a physical copy of kalevala, and this is one of the editions I see. To be fair, most of them don't have 50 swastikas on their covers.
it's a pretty cool book, bought the original ye olde finnish version and then had to buy one with modern finnish because, motherfucker some words just became completely opposite during the decades
my favourite bit is the one where the smith Ilmarinen forges a wife from gold because he lost his wife in the previous story. he isnt very happy because she is very cold and apparentely in more than the physical way. So he tries to pawn her off to Väinämöinen (who is a massive fucking dickhead) and he turns that into a lesson:
Then the hero of the waters
Called together all his people,
Spake these words of ancient wisdom:
"Every child of Northland, listen,
Whether poor, or fortune-favored:
Never bow before an image
Born of molten gold and silver:
Never while the sunlight brightens,
Never while the moonlight glimmers,
Choose a maiden of the metals,
Choose a bride from gold created
Cold the lips of golden maiden,
Silver breathes the breath of sorrow."
i do love to read stuff written way back when and they try to warn us off from worshipping wealth sorry, folks we done fucked up
Estonia just keeps striking me as Finland, but without the sweet music and literature. Seriously the Kalevala is hardcore. I really hope it's not super popular with fascists. Granted, I'm American. Any culture we have we quickly try and stamp out. I'm genuinely shocked my family held onto some of our Polish traditions.
You got me wanting to buy a physical copy of kalevala, and this is one of the editions I see. To be fair, most of them don't have 50 swastikas on their covers.
cursed cover holy shit
The title means "Kalevala for Young Adults" and the publisher is "Enlightenment", apparentely the first one was printed in 1922
Damn where’s the burning Finnish flag emoji
Fuck, that shit is rough. I just had some generic looking Barnes and Noble cover. I guess that answers my worries.
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it's a pretty cool book, bought the original ye olde finnish version and then had to buy one with modern finnish because, motherfucker some words just became completely opposite during the decades
my favourite bit is the one where the smith Ilmarinen forges a wife from gold because he lost his wife in the previous story. he isnt very happy because she is very cold and apparentely in more than the physical way. So he tries to pawn her off to Väinämöinen (who is a massive fucking dickhead) and he turns that into a lesson:
Then the hero of the waters Called together all his people, Spake these words of ancient wisdom: "Every child of Northland, listen, Whether poor, or fortune-favored: Never bow before an image Born of molten gold and silver: Never while the sunlight brightens, Never while the moonlight glimmers, Choose a maiden of the metals, Choose a bride from gold created Cold the lips of golden maiden, Silver breathes the breath of sorrow."i do love to read stuff written way back when and they try to warn us off from worshipping wealth
sorry, folks we done fucked up
SAMPO!