Following this, there will be a series of videos illustrating the story of Kalevala.

@larrywave

2 жыл бұрын

Cant wait

@Packless1

8 ай бұрын

...yes, please...! 🤩👍

I adore the Kalevala! I read all of JRR Tolkien when I was in high school (40 years ago), and when I learned how Kalevala inspired him I just had to read it myself. Found the Crawford translation at my local library, and ended up loving it! Favorite characters? Hard to say. Lemminkainen of course is a lot of fun, but I think I admire Ilmarinen the most. I am a craftsman myself (though not quite so good as him, I haven't figured out how to make a Sampo. . . "

@Anttimation

Жыл бұрын

How cool that it's found its way to local libraries overseas! I'm probably a Louhi guy myself. It's awesome (and unique) how the villain is a scary matriarch. Thanks for watching!

@Anttimation

11 ай бұрын

@@gforce1754 hmm sounds similar and somewhat similar antagonist roles, however I'm not aware of a connection

This was a nice introduction for those who never heard of it and who wonder why images painted by Akseli Gallen-Kallela keep appearing everywhere when people need royalty free Finnish cultural imagery. I borrow his work too. I look forward to more of your animation of the Kalevala, old and new.

@Anttimation

Ай бұрын

Thanks Rudolf! Yeah, true. Also in Finland they are everywhere. There's one cafe in Helsinki with a full ceiling of his work and it's dope.

Runo singing was still around in western Finland at the time of Elias Lönnrot, but it was most popular in eastern Finland aka Karelia and Savonia

Lived in Finland for a while. Loved the country the culture and the Kalevala, being a builder who works with his hands my favourite character is Ilmarinen.

@Anttimation

2 ай бұрын

Ha - that makes sense!

Brilliant video!

@Anttimation

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate!

When I was living in Canada, I found a copy of the Kalevala at a second hand store. It was only 4 dollars!

@Anttimation

3 ай бұрын

Good bargain!

As a Karelian, I have to remind makers of this video, that it belongs to Karelian culture just as much.

@Anttimation

2 ай бұрын

Of course

Very informational video and lovely to watch!

@Anttimation

2 ай бұрын

Thank you! A new Kalevala video coming on Wednesday btw...

This is so cool! I'm American, but my grandpa was the only one of his brothers to leave Finland so we have family there. I would love to visit one day

@Anttimation

Ай бұрын

Welcome! Will be quite a long journey but hopefully worth it 😎

Good to have Reidar Wasenius in a video again!

@Anttimation

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Excited for what's coming as well...

What a amazing story this Finland Epic has. (Kalevala) My homeland, we have a Estonia Epic too, (Kalevipoeg)

@Anttimation

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Kalevipoeg is on my to-read list. I wonder if there's a decent English or Finnish translation 🤔

@mathish1477

10 ай бұрын

What's it like?

I've been following my genealogy randomly for a few months now and following up on the more interesting stories in it. I found "Thorri Snaersson, King of Kvenland and Gotaland" where someone mentioned the Kalevala for more information on the people and their stories. This is a great Introductory video! I love JRR Tolkien also. I love that he was inspired by this.

@Anttimation

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Kalevala was indeed one of his main inspiration sources, and no wonder why.

Your videos are always so good. I am very exited to see more.

@Anttimation

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! That is very good to hear.

"It's takes the reads to a mythical land" - aka Finland

Great video, looking forward for the next!

@Anttimation

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Me too, hehe.

Amazing video 👏👏

Can’t wait for the series!

@Anttimation

2 жыл бұрын

Me neither! Working on the first part right now.

Super!!! Love it and again so interesting! Thanks for sharing!!!

@Anttimation

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks again for watching! 😊

There has even been a comic made inspired by it, by Disney drawer Don Rosa, in effect Donald Duck & co. going to the land of Kalevala. The comic was at once translated to Finnish and received local astonishment for an American of absolutely not Finn background who knew this epic. A year or so later mr. Rosa found himself in Finland. He had no idea what awaited him - airport staff must have revealed because soon everyone knew that Don Rosa who had made a comic resume of the work for an American audience was in the land... He was invited to comic conventions, literature festivals and to top it all, to an audience with the president of Finland...

@Anttimation

Жыл бұрын

Don Rosa is HUGE here! And for good reason, I admire the research he puts in the stories.

yess!! finally Kalevala, thank you!

@Anttimation

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. I'm working on the first part of the story of Kalevala videos right now!

Concise and beautifully illustrated. Great video, thanks! 🙏🏻

@elon_bust

Жыл бұрын

Also big shoutout to Amorphis

@Anttimation

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! 🤘

And so well done too!

Thank You and Kiitos Paljon on this Video...Not only I am interested in Hockey IN Finland but to know about Kalevala is cool...again Kiitos.

@Anttimation

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! Thanks for watching again 🙌

Mahtava video jälleen!

@Anttimation

2 жыл бұрын

Kiitos!

Awesome, can't wait to watch the rest of the series! I've been trying to look for some type of audiobook narrating the Kalevala in Finnish, while I read it. I've only been studying the language for 6 months so I'm far from understanding pretty much most things, but I would love to hear this beautiful language with the structure used in the Kalevala. I could only find the English translation with the audio, so any suggestions by anyone reading this on where I could find it would be appreciated!

@Anttimation

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! That's admirable! I don't think I understood what you're looking for. An audiobook in English?

@alicebPJ

2 жыл бұрын

@@Anttimation yeah my comment was pretty convoluted 😅 I'd like to find the audiobook narrated in Finnish! Not sure if it's maybe available on Audible exclusively in Finland, since I couldn't find it.

@Anttimation

2 жыл бұрын

@@alicebPJ Aa ok! Don't know about Audible (Amazon isn't much of a thing here) but here's one: www.suomalainen.com/products/kalevala-3 and here you can hear a sample of it: www.storytel.com/fi/fi/books/kalevala-312958?gclid=Cj0KCQiAjc2QBhDgARIsAMc3SqQ1fEovdJ_eORBY2uyIkIbwEPeLmHx9iMT7nm1YQYGXXKSdSx0S_X0aAhyzEALw_wcB

@alicebPJ

2 жыл бұрын

@@Anttimation that's amazing, thank you for taking the time to reply and look for that!

@Anttimation

2 жыл бұрын

@@alicebPJ Happy if that helped! 👍

Ilmarinen is quite a fascinating character. When I heard about the Sampo , I immediately thought of a giant shampoo between the sky and earth.

@Anttimation

4 ай бұрын

Well he does presumably wash his hair with something!

I learned about this from the behind the scenes jrr Tolkien DVD 8 had back in the early really 2000s... it's cool to be able to watch videos about it on KZread

@Anttimation

Жыл бұрын

Those dvd sets are quite the something 👌

Compiled and, in places, written by ol' Elias. It suddenly struck me that what you said about the going and return of Väinämöinen is what legend says about King Arthur. (Sorry about the redundancy of that first sentence but I was typing while listening. Had I just listened to it all and THEN typed, that useless line wouldn't be there.) Truly trivial: I inherited a lovely hardcover copy of the Kalevala (printed in simple two colour type and safe inside a leather slipcover) published in 1947.

@Anttimation

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah! King Arthur was my favourite mythical hero as a kid. I wonder to what extend these could be connected, as myths often are.

@lyrigageforge3259

2 жыл бұрын

@@Anttimation In same sense as there are arch types for heroes and such - or that a hero-story has a certain structure about it. It seems to be some kind of a wishful addition to a story for those who find the old times a lot more interesting for being mysterious and magical per say. True heroes have to always return or the story will not end well.

@ThisTrainIsLost

2 жыл бұрын

@@Anttimation I think that first off you would have to find out whether the two myths were contemporaneous or not. I would guess that they weren't so, an attempt to find out when the two stories were "born" would have to be made. If there's any overlap at all, then you would look for the ways in which the two sets of people might have interacted. If no point or points of contact, direct or indirect, can be established, then you might as well have a sauna, a barbecue and beer while you think up something else to research.

@Aurinkohirvi

2 жыл бұрын

I don't recall why Arthur said he leaves. But there's a big difference with Arthur and Väinämöinen. Väinämöinen is a god in folklore, although Kalevala made him an ur-hero. Wikipedia says he was the master of lightnings and fire in folklore, the highest of gods, which certainly hints to prime god Ukko-Ilmarinen. Agricola says Väinämöinen was the god of hämäläiset tribe (Tavastians). And he is known from the creation of world runos where he is the son of goddess Ilmatar. As Ilmarinen is found with his own name in runos, its possible Väinämöinen is Ukko: so both are the same, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age versions of the prime god. And it's the folklore that has this runo of Väinämöinen leaving, angry and sour because his ways are judged wrong by the son of Marjatta (Mary). When leaving he boasts that he will be back when heroic deeds are needed and the universe stops working.

@ThisTrainIsLost

2 жыл бұрын

@@Aurinkohirvi Good King Arthur didn't leave so much as he was taken away by rather supernatural women (probably related to the Lady of the Lake, who once again became the custodian of Excalibur) after he passed away in his victorious battle against his (magically inbred) son. You know that magic was involved because it is said that, though Arthur died in his final battle, he must have been in some state in between life and death because the mysterious women took Arthur away by boat to the mystical isle of Avalon from which Arthur will return when his land is once more in such peril that only Arthur's return can save the day. It was that going and returning that made the connection in my mind between Arthur & Väinämöinen.

Another video reaching a thousand views! Congrats!

@Anttimation

2 жыл бұрын

Yess! Thank you! 💪

@js1423

2 жыл бұрын

@@Anttimation Good to see this channel grow!

@Anttimation

2 жыл бұрын

@@js1423 Slowly but surely, however the speed of growth is also picking up slowly... While I don't get random hits like "Why Vikings Never Invaded Finland" often, it's good to see this going somewhere.

@js1423

2 жыл бұрын

@@Anttimation 👍

Noiiiice!

@Anttimation

2 жыл бұрын

Thaaaanks! 🤘

Good stuff.

@Anttimation

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Your channel looks interesting too 👍

@BibleUnleashed

2 жыл бұрын

@@Anttimation Thanks. I think we've talked few months ago!

Nice talking voice! Enjoyed

@Anttimation

Жыл бұрын

Reidar should do audiobooks!

@Massigangster

Жыл бұрын

@@Anttimation that would be great!!

4:24 YOU’RE GODDAMN RIGHT I AM. 🤠😎

A game called "Noita" brought me here.

@Anttimation

11 ай бұрын

Hmm, quite a few people have said that. I have to check it out!

'He has not yet returned. ' 🤣👍

@Anttimation

2 жыл бұрын

Dude likes to takes his time...

Subscribed.

@Anttimation

2 жыл бұрын

Much appreciated!

Sehr gutes Video 🤘🤘👍👍🙏🙏zur Zeit lese ich die deutsche Version der kalevala,befinde mich zur Zeit an der Stelle wo väinämöinen wieder zusammen gesetzt wird und die Biene sich auf ihrem Weg macht für die heilende Salbe.ein tolles buch🇫🇮👌👍🙏

@Anttimation

11 ай бұрын

Vielen dank! Aber ich muss sagen, dass ich alles nicht verstehe 😅 habe mein Deutsch meistens vergessen!

@mr.silver7651

11 ай бұрын

@@Anttimation kiitos 🙏🙏🙏🙏 i only know 3 or 4 sentences in soumi, work for 24 years for a finnish crane Company and we speak english,the most of the time.i really love finnish metal Bands like amorphis, ensiferum,sentenced🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘thought last year ,its time to Start reading the kalevala, Fan since 1996......thervedes 🙏🙏🙏🤘🤘🤘🤘🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮

My favorite section is the "forging of the Sampo" "...but of evil disposition..."

@Anttimation

Жыл бұрын

Yeah! That is badass. I have a series of the Kalevala animated, the next part out soon, and getting towards the forging of Sampo... ;)

I've read Kieth Bosley's translation of the epic (the 1849 version) and listened to his reading of it many, many, many times. Of a truth, Mr. Bosley is nothing short of an incarnation of Vainamoinen himself.

@Anttimation

5 ай бұрын

I want to look it up now!

KULLERVO TÚRIN TURAMBAR My absolute favourite in the entire Legendarium

@Anttimation

Жыл бұрын

That's the guy.

@Anttimation

Жыл бұрын

I have a video of the Finnish influences on Middle Earth: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y4x-p8-dksrKZ6Q.html

...i.m.o. most people - like me - unfortunately know little about the Kalevala...! 🙁 ...o.t.o.h. it's best known for inspiring Tolkien' L.o.t.R...! 👍

@Anttimation

8 ай бұрын

Well that's why I make these! Tolkien was, of course, inspired by other tales too but this was hugely important.

Pov Tolkien: "Write that down! Write that down!"

@Anttimation

5 ай бұрын

And... He certainly did :D

Wouldn't it be awesome if Age of Mythology Retold had Finnish mythology?

@Anttimation

2 ай бұрын

Is that a game?

@MaksimaalinenTuska

2 ай бұрын

@@Anttimation well anticipated remake for spin off of Age of Empires strategy game series that comes out this year. I'd do anything to get Finnish mythology to my childhood favorite game. I'd even sell my soul to Perkele, hadn't I already done that to get me some juhla mokka, you know the inflation and all that.

Can certainly hear the Aryan PIE influence and how it relates to Sanskrit.

@Anttimation

2 ай бұрын

Interesting! Where, for example? I'm not disagreeing btw, just interested to hear you thoughts!

Is this the voice that tells people to wear a mask on the HSL train?

@Anttimation

2 жыл бұрын

Don't know about HSL but he does tell you things in the VR trains 😀

@UnchartedAtlas

2 жыл бұрын

@@Anttimation I knew I recognised him! Haha Awesome video by the way, and the art is 👨‍🍳👌 as ever

Haha. Thanks.

@Anttimation

Жыл бұрын

Welcome!

Postcrossing으로 이 영상에 도달😄 추천해준 친구에게 감사!!! ❤🧡💛💚💙💜

And Jean Sibelius...???

@Anttimation

Ай бұрын

I don't remember his relation to Kalevala but as a nationalist he certainly didn't mind it, I'm sure

0:43 isn't Väinämöinen a demigod? son of Ilmarinen and a human man?

@Anttimation

5 ай бұрын

I don't think there was a concept of a "demigod" or god even as we understand today. Ukko would be the closest to how we classify gods from today's religions' POV.

🤔 Now i wonder if finish mythos is ralated to indo-european mythos family.

@Anttimation

Жыл бұрын

Yes. There are similar universal themes found in all mythology, as well as some more detailed connections, but Finnic myths have developed stories of their own that are quite different to anything else.

I don´t like that Väinämöinen kills animals to get words for his summoning.

Sä kuulutat junan kuulutukset

@Anttimation

Жыл бұрын

@Reidar Wasenius kuuluttaa juu

@mirppeliini796

Жыл бұрын

@@Anttimation niin

The foreword to my russian(soviet) edition calls Lönnrot a "remarkable RUSSIAN researcher and writer". Who to belive and who is lying?

@Anttimation

Жыл бұрын

Could it be that the whole of Finland and the rest of the world have been lying about it, and the truth lies in a Russian edition...? 🤣

@JoinMeInDeathBaby

Жыл бұрын

@@Anttimation I guess it is an example of russian/soviet imperialism. Russian wiki calls him a finn.

@Anttimation

Жыл бұрын

@@JoinMeInDeathBaby Russian view of history in general could be quite interesting. I think it's a widespread belief there that Finland started the Winter War. Goes hand in hand with their view of Nato expanding, the West threatening Russia etc. The list goes on forever.

@JoinMeInDeathBaby

Жыл бұрын

@@Anttimation sure. But everything i read in russian on Kalevala stresses that it is the Karelo-Finnish epic poem, mostly created from runes from Russian Karelia and Pomorye, not from "Finland proper". Is that factually correct?

@Anttimation

Жыл бұрын

@@JoinMeInDeathBaby Well, at the time, Finland was a grand duchy of Russia, Karelia part of it. Karelia itself is a larger region, much of which was part of Finland from the independence 1917 until the end of WWII when it was lost to the Soviet Union. The runes originate both within the borders of modern day Finland and Karelia's Finnish and Russian sides (and some maybe further?).