...THE KALEVALA The Epic Poem of Finland T ranslated into English By John Martin Crawford 1888 1888 1888 188... ............................462 5 The Kalevala THE KALEVALA The Epic Poem of Finland Translated into English By John Martin Crawford 1888 1888 1888 1888... ...ed for here in order that the following poem may be the better understood. Finland (Finnish, Suomi or Suomenmaa, the swampy re gion, of which Finland... ... driven back from the East, at a very early day, by advancing tribes. The Finlanders live in a land of marshes and mountains, lakes and rivers, seas,... ...he north is about 270ºF., and about 38ºF ., at Helsingfors, the capital of Finland. In the 6 The Kalevala southern districts the winter is seven mon... ...waters he is nurtured, and his life prolonged.” Thus it is that the map of Finland is to this day full of names like Pyhojarvi (sacred lake) and Pyhaj... ...mes like Pyhojarvi (sacred lake) and Pyhajoki (sacred river). Some of the Finlanders still offer goats and calves to these sacred waters; and many of... ...st pleasure in annoying and destroying their fellow beings. Originally the Finlanders regarded the earth as a godlike existence with personal powers, ... ...rtals are supposed to emanate from him. This demon, too, is thought by the Finlanders to have a hand in all the evil done in the world. T urning from ...

...Part 1 of a short story series set in mythic Viking Age Finland. Somewhere far in the north, in the middle of a dense forest, two girls have embarked on a sacred journey: a journey that is to end their carefree days among the children of their tribe. Grim as their world is, the ...

...Thailand. No science called cultural anthropology existed in those days in Finland. I looked along the Phahonlyothin to the railway crossing; the coun... ... city of Lampang, and archived everything in a Finnish museum. I came from Finland, wealthy Scandinavia, a country that believes in development, moder... ...ion, globalization, a planetary future. In Western development statistics, Finland is near the top, currently the leading country in competition for s... ...in competition for state-of-the-art technology. In international rankings, Finland is the least corrupt country in the world, an efficient high-tech c... ...ety's problems should be resolved by scientific-technological development. Finland has wanted to imitate global development in everything, to free the... ...to free consuming man from the lifestyle of former village communities. In Finland, the countryside is threatened by desertion, as people move into 'g... ...e European Union, a continental state, part of the European United States. Finland also has the most museums, it has the world's largest collections o... ...d start drinking or using drugs ever younger. In many countries, including Finland, young girls of the new, free generation have adopted behaviour pat... ...res, cultural centres, centres of excellence and centres of well-being. In Finland, for example, village schools, shops and other local structures hav...

...funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. The author draws surprising parallels between the worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti Sarmela started collecting material on Northern Thailand in 1972. Based on a longitudinal field study, he wrote his description of three villages in Lampang Province, and...

...ather peculiarly fanciful set of stories are adapted from the Roumanians; others are from the Baltic shores; others from sunny Sicily; a few are from Finland, and Iceland, and Japan, and Tunis, and Portugal. No doubt many children will like to look out these places on the map, and study their mountains, rivers, soil, products, and fiscal policies, in the geography books. T...

...by Prof. Lauri Ojala & Dr. Harri Lorentz of the Turku School of Economics, Finland in their presentation Towards an improved methodology in logistics...

..., like a blast that would have brought Tears to the eyes of all the bears in Finland, And love was done. That was how much I knew. Poor little wretch!...

...ume a sunless world forlorn, As o’er the chill and dusky brow of Night, In Finland’s wintry skies the Mimic Morn Electric pours a stream of rosy li...

...conomies) Austria; Belgium; Bulgaria; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Ireland; Italy; Latvia;... ...CD (30 economies) Australia; Austria; Belgium; Canada; Czech Republic; Denmark; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Iceland; Ireland; Israe...

...t of countries with liberalized labour markets - Britain, Spain, Ireland, Finland. The ECB brags that employment in the euro zone has been rising fa... ... Americans started a new business - compared to less than 1.5 percent in Finland. Entrepreneurship accounted for one third of the difference in eco...

...as been every- where you can think of, and she ‘s going to finish off with Finland. You can’t go any further than that, can you? That ‘s one comfort; ...

...ech Republic • Denmark • Dominican Republic El Salvador • Estonia • Fiji • Finland • France • French Polynesia • Germany • Greece • Guatemala Hong Ko...

... of Americans rank themselves happy. The Danes come out number one in the world on most surveys. The Scandinavian countries do quite well with Finlan...