Mastodawn

fuck

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8062012169

voodoocactus's review of Lumenlaulaja

5/5: I drew a sharp breath when I reached the last sentence of the first chapter, and that pretty much described the whole reading experience. Is it corny to say I was holding back tears the whole time? Is it cheesy to claim I could feel the drums and the rhythm shivering under my skin? Probably, but I honestly don’t give a fuck. The language is breathtakingly beautiful and the story old as time: peaceful people want to be left alone to live their lives but greed in all its myriad forms is just too much. Men come to kill and rape and burn and bleed the land dry, leaving behind scorched earth a...

Nifty Buckles Folklore Mar 24, 2025

#MythologyMonday 🌪️ #Weatherwitch

In Finnish lore, #Louhi, witch-queen of Pohjola, rules the winds.

✨In the Kalevala, she conjures storms to sink heroes’ ships and steals the sun, cloaking the world in icy dark.

🧙‍♀️A true weather witch of the north.

#FinnishLegends

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#Fandom50 female edition, post 31: Louhi from the (culturally appropriated) Finnish epic poem Kalevala.

https://shipperslist.dreamwidth.org/510019.html

#fannishfifty #kalevala #louhi

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Sanna Peden Dec 15, 2023

If the Kalevala had not been translated into English, Tolkien might never have gotten into it. Galadriel would talk funny.

If the Kalevala had not been translated into Swedish, Finns themselves might not have gotten into their own national epic. Akseli Gallen-Kallela would have had so much spare time.

In the last Filtrit-video of the year I go through a history of translations of the Kalevala, and compare three different English translations of a specific poem, "The Battle of the Sampo" (Kirby, Magoun, Bosley).

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#translation #translating #kalevala #finland #finnish #sampo #poetry #louhi #filtrit

https://youtu.be/X6NAIEdBlfc