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39 relations: Alliterative verse, Ancient Estonia, Cú Chulainn, Censorship, EEVA, Epic poetry, Estonia, Estonian mythology, Eustathius of Thessalonica, Finland, Finns, Folklore, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Gawain, German language, Hedgehog, Hurrians, Ilmarinen, Kalev (mythology), Kalevala, Kuopio, Lake Ülemiste, Lake Peipus, Learned Estonian Society, Leyen Spiegel, Linda (Estonian mythology), Mikael Agricola, National epic, Oral literature, Sami people, Tallinn, Tharapita, Toell the Great, Toompea, Ukko, Ullikummi, Verse (poetry), William Forsell Kirby.
Alliterative verse
In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal ornamental device to help indicate the underlying metrical structure, as opposed to other devices such as rhyme.
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Ancient Estonia
Ancient Estonia refers to a period covering History of Estonia from the middle of the 8th millennium BC until the conquest and subjugation of the local Finnic tribes in the first quarter of the 13th century during the Danish Northern Crusades.
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Cú Chulainn
Cú Chulainn, also spelled Cú Chulaind or Cúchulainn (Irish for "Culann's Hound") and sometimes known in English as Cuhullin, is an Irish mythological hero who appears in the stories of the Ulster Cycle, as well as in Scottish and Manx folklore.
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Censorship
Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient" as determined by government authorities.
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EEVA
EEVA, Eesti vanema kirjanduse digitaalne tekstikogu (Estonian for 'Digital Text Repository for Older Estonian Literature'), is a project of the University of Tartu Library, Department of Literature and Folklore of the University of Tartu and Estonian Literary Museum to digitise old texts that are important to Estonian literature history, thus allowing wide readership to access them while sparing the (almost invariably rare) originals.
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Epic poetry
An epic poem, epic, epos, or epopee is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily involving a time beyond living memory in which occurred the extraordinary doings of the extraordinary men and women who, in dealings with the gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the moral universe that their descendants, the poet and his audience, must understand to understand themselves as a people or nation.
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Estonia
Estonia (Eesti), officially the Republic of Estonia (Eesti Vabariik), is a sovereign state in Northern Europe.
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Estonian mythology
Estonian mythology is a complex of myths belonging to the Estonian folk heritage and literary mythology.
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Eustathius of Thessalonica
Eustathius of Thessalonica (or Eustathios of Thessalonike; Εὐστάθιος Θεσσαλονίκης; c. 1115 – 1195/6) was a Greek scholar and Archbishop of Thessalonica.
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Finland
Finland (Suomi; Finland), officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east.
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Finns
Finns or Finnish people (suomalaiset) are a Finnic ethnic group native to Finland.
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Folklore
Folklore is the expressive body of culture shared by a particular group of people; it encompasses the traditions common to that culture, subculture or group.
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Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (–) was an Estonian writer who is considered to be the father of the national literature for the country.
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Friedrich Robert Faehlmann
Friedrich Robert Faehlmann (Fählmann) (31 December 1798 in Ao Manor – 22 April 1850 in Tartu) was an Estonian writer, medical doctor and philologist active in Livonia, Russian Empire.
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Gawain
Gawain (also called Gwalchmei, Gualguanus, Gauvain, Walwein, etc.) is King Arthur's nephew and a Knight of the Round Table in the Arthurian legend.
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German language
German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.
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Hedgehog
A hedgehog is any of the spiny mammals of the subfamily Erinaceinae, in the eulipotyphlan family Erinaceidae.
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Hurrians
The Hurrians (cuneiform:; transliteration: Ḫu-ur-ri; also called Hari, Khurrites, Hourri, Churri, Hurri or Hurriter) were a people of the Bronze Age Near East.
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Ilmarinen
Ilmarinen, the Eternal Hammerer, blacksmith and inventor in the Kalevala, is a god and an archetypal artificer from Finnish mythology.
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Kalev (mythology)
In Estonian mythology and Kreutzwald's epic poem Kalevipoeg, King Kalev was the father of King Kalevipoeg and the husband of Linda.
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Kalevala
The Kalevala (Finnish Kalevala) is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology.
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Kuopio
Kuopio is a city and municipality located in Northern Savonia, Finland.
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Lake Ülemiste
Lake Ülemiste (Ülemiste järv) is the largest of the lakes surrounding Tallinn, Estonia.
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Lake Peipus
Lake Peipus (Peipsi-Pihkva järv; Псковско-Чудское озеро (Pskovsko-Chudskoe ozero), Peipussee), the largest transboundary lake in Europe, lies on the border between Estonia and Russia.
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Learned Estonian Society
The Learned Estonian Society (Õpetatud Eesti Selts, Gelehrte Estnische Gesellschaft, shortened ÕES) is Estonia's oldest scholarly organisation, and was formed at the University of Tartu in 1838.
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Leyen Spiegel
Leyen Spiegel is a two-volume book of sermons, with parallel texts in Estonian and German.
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Linda (Estonian mythology)
In the Estonian mythology and Kreutzwald's epic Kalevipoeg, Linda was the mother of Kalevipoeg and the wife of Kalev.
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Mikael Agricola
Mikael Agricola (c. 1510 – 9 April 1557) was a Lutheran clergyman who became the de facto founder of literary Finnish and a prominent proponent of the Protestant Reformation in Sweden, including Finland, which was a Swedish territory at the time.
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National epic
A national epic is an epic poem or a literary work of epic scope which seeks or is believed to capture and express the essence or spirit of a particular nation; not necessarily a nation state, but at least an ethnic or linguistic group with aspirations to independence or autonomy.
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Oral literature
Oral literature or folk literature corresponds in the sphere of the spoken (oral) word to literature as literature operates in the domain of the written word.
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Sami people
The Sami people (also known as the Sámi or the Saami) are a Finno-Ugric people inhabiting Sápmi, which today encompasses large parts of Norway and Sweden, northern parts of Finland, and the Murmansk Oblast of Russia.
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Tallinn
Tallinn (or,; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city of Estonia.
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Tharapita
Taara (variations of the name include Tooru, Tharapita and Tarapitha) is a prominent god in Estonian mythology.
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Toell the Great
Toell the Great (Suur Tõll) in Estonian mythology is a great giant hero who lived according to the legend on the Baltic Sea island of Saaremaa (Ösel).
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Toompea
Toompea (from Domberg, "Cathedral Hill") is a limestone hill in the central part of the city of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.
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Ukko
Ukko, or Äijä or Äijö (Finnish: male grandparent, grandfather, old man), parallel to Uku in Estonian mythology, is the god of the sky, weather, harvest and thunder in Finnish mythology.
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Ullikummi
__notoc__ In Hurrian mythology, Ullikummi is a giant stone monster, son of Kumarbi and the sea god's daughter, Sertapsuruhi or a female cliff.
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Verse (poetry)
In the countable sense, a verse is formally a single metrical line in a poetic composition.
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William Forsell Kirby
William Forsell Kirby (14 January 1844 – 20 November 1912) was an English entomologist and folklorist.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevipoeg
