...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...

...ge politics as Finnish was emerging as a language of academia in the bilingual country. Aho (1861 - 1921) was among the first professional writers in Finland. This reading is in Finnish. (Summary by Tuija Aalto)...

...ompanies have at least nine lives, it would seem. Nokia was founded in southwestern Finland, in 1865, by a mining engineer, one, Frederik Idestam, a... ...eceded by the Aztecs, ancient China, feudal Japan, the Polynesian islands, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Canada, and India, and all the ... ...en repealed within 10-20 years from their introduction. Some prohibition laws - Finland is an example - were the result of lobbying by breweries...

... subsequent years he was awarded honorary PhDs in the United States, Canada, Finland, Russia, and Hungary. In recognition of his commitment to globa...

...utobiographies of Fenno-swedish literature. Anders Ramsay's eight volumes offer a great wealth of information about aristocratic life in 19th century Finland, as well as of life in Paris, on the grand tour in Italy and so on. Ramsay's style of writing is free and full of delightful humour -- often at the author's own expense. His life is also a good illustration of the pro...

...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...

...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...

... the top political leader in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Latvia, Norway, Finland, Liberia, Mozambique, Germany, Ireland, UK, Argentina and the Phili... ...d counties like India, Pakistan, Israel, Liberia, Germany, Norway, Chile, Finland. They wouldn‟t be there if they didn‟t have the ability. And it‟s h... ...rform the U.S. and Europe in both math and science.(10) Although recently Finland cracked the top spot in science in one set of international tests. ...

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

...in Western Europe in terms of corruption. At the top of the ethical list, Finland was shown as being the least corrupt. (2) ―Every system, w... ...Vietnam was next, followed by Denmark, Norway, Japan, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, South Korea and Estonia, with 49% non-believers. ... ...e same level. Nokia‘s earnings were equal to the whole national budget of Finland. And while the administrators of the company love their country and... ...rators of the company love their country and 136 wanted to keep it in Finland in spite of the high taxes, most of the owners live outside of Fin... ...weden dropped from fifth to 14 th , Denmark dropped from third to seventh, Finland dropped from 9 th to 15 th . At the same time Ireland rose from 2... ...to fourth. The four worst performing economies have been Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Italy. Sweden has the world‘s largest public sector work force... ...evels, so they are not all paper pushers. ―Job creation was zero in Finland and Sweden while it went up 8% in Belgium. Denmark did better when... ...r taxes. In Denmark it is a 59% maximum tax rate, in Sweden it is 53%, in Finland it is 53% and in Norway it is ‗only‘ 51%. Value added or sales taxe... .... In addition to the national holidays that all countries enjoy. Denmark, Finland and Austria give six weeks of paid vacation, France and Germany gi...

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

...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...

...74 Ethiopia 75 Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) 76 Faroe Islands 77 Fiji 78 Finland 79_ France 81 French Guiana 83 French Polynesia 84 Gabon 85 Gambi... ...INTELSAT, INTERPOL, ISO, ITU, SPF, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO 78 Finland Economy GDP: $1.099 billion (1986 est), $1,254 per capita; annual... ...th USSR; Helsinki is northernmost national capital on European continent 79 Finland (continued) People Population: 4,939,880 (July 1987), average ann... ...e) Organized labor: 80% of labor force Government Official name: Republic of Finland Type: republic Capital: Helsinki Administrative divisions: 12 pro... ...ansport equipment, food products Major trade partners: (1980) Denmark 49.4%, Finland 9.5%, FRG 8.1%, US 6.3%, UK 2.9% Monetary conversion rate: 7.37 D...

... secondary education are way down the list. Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Finland and most of Europe are far ahead. How can you claim to have the wo...

...ill prevalent in China, but has been wiped out here. We are now rated with Finland as the most graft-free countries.‖ ...

...roc. of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Espoo, Finland, (1991) 1245-1248. 21. Hall Jr, M., Combinatorial Theory, Blaisd...

...r worse than their parents — is weaker in America than in Denmark, Austria, Norway, Finland, Canada, Sweden, Germany, Spain and France. In America,...