Emmi Itäranta: Lumenlaulaja

fuck. this is the best books I've read in a while

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d7efa0f7-a268-41c5-8398-58fc73fa3772

#reading #EmmiItäranta #Lumenlaulaja #Kalevala #Louhi #bookstodon

#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

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