Kalevala from Moraine Books (41 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The guide for international readers tells the main things in a nutshell about the Kalevala, the most translated landmark in Finnish literature. The book leads to the plot of the epic and the key characters, places, sentiments and worldview. The guide also provides an overview of Elias Lönnrot's work, Kalevala-style poetry, Kalevala-inspired art, and the place of the Kalevala among other epics in the world. The work has been made in collaboration with the Kalevala Society. Text in English. 127 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dust jacket has some rubbing and wear on the edges, small tear. Text in Latin. 365 pp.

Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Text in English. 218 pp. Minor glue residue from old price tag on the rear cover. This collection proposes to make Finnish or Balto-Finnic folklore better known in English-speaking countries. Contents Finnic folklore The Finnic epics On the structure of the epic Kalevipoeg Negative parallelism in Karelian-Finnish folklore Gesture and ballads The Sower (Sämpsä Pellervoinen's song) Lemminkäinen and Vavilo Antero Vipunen The gigantic bird of Finnish folklore Väinämöinen's straw stallion F. R. Faehlmann's myth "Dawn and Dusk" Jumi - a fertility divinity Finnish-Karelian Äkräs Ingrian Kirlouks "Water Spirit".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A magnificent, large-scale, festively decorated book about the Kalevala drama first performed in Nurmes in 1985. Beautiful metal relief on the cover. Design by Seppo Huunonen and Matti Kolho. Photographs by Matti Kolho. Drawings by Seppo Huunonen. Authors: Matti Kuusela, Senni Timonen, Pertti Anttonen. English translation of poems according to W. F. Kirby's translation of the Kalevala. Covers have some scratches and scrapes. 248 pp.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Text in English. 399 pp. Stains to the inside cover and front free endpaper. Edge wear and rubbing to covers.

Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Text in English. 151 pp. Slight wear to corners. The Kalevala, the Finnish national epic, has been a major source of national self-esteem and inspiration in Finnish culture and art ever since it was first published. Its ancient poetry has variously fired the political ambitions of a young nation and generated dazzling artistic vistas that delve into its shamanistic depths This is the first book ever to explore the impact of the poetry of the Kalevala on Finnish music, including jazz and the diverse forms of popular music, The articles cover a wide span of influences and processes from Sibelius to the 'Kalevala metal' of the new millennium.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Text in French with an English and Finnish summary. 593 pp. Minor wear to the covers. Although it has existed in written form for barely 150 years, the Finnish Kalevala is one of the most widely translated national epics in the world. It has already undergone exhaustive exegesis, and the popular themes used and stylised by its compiler have been sufficiently enumerated and classified. However, the study of the authentic oral traditions that underlie it, many of which are still thriving in those Finnic and Baltic areas so little known to the rest of the Western world, remained a fascinating endeavor. Even more fascinating was to compare these traditions with the other gems of the oral heritage of mankind traditional rites, myths and music, from Occitania, Central Europe, Africa, Asia, Amerindia, Oceania. and, as a final aim, to bring about another audacious comparison, by bridging the gap between the ancient, anonymous oral tradition and the practice of everyday oral communication; between the collective tradition on the one hand, and dialogue-type enunciation on the other. This is the scope of this unique gathering of specialists from all over the world. representing different fields of ethnological studies : ethnolinguistics, ethno-literature, ethnomusicology and folklore.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Text in Estonian. 73 pp. Yellowed covers and page edges; bumped corners and spine ends; crooked spine; slight edge wear.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Tex in Spanish. 346 pp. Some general wear on the covers and page edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. An essay about the origins of the Finnish national epic. Reprinted from the Arv. Journal of Scandinavian Folklore, vol 20, 1964. In English. Binding a little loose, small wear to the covers. 112 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Book in fine condition, no markings. This collection endeavours to make Finnic (Finnish, Karelian, Estonian) folklore better known internationally. Essays give a survey of Finnic folkloristics and the epics Kalevala and Kalevipoeg. They are followed by studies of various folklore problems. Text in English. 218 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. A huge collection of essays on the Finnish national epic Kalevala, and its models like Homeric Epics, Virgil's Aeneid, Eddic Poetry, Nibelungenlied, and its points of comparison in Europe, Africa and Asia. Etc. Writers include Lauri Honko, Minna Skafte Jensen, Teivas Oksala, Lars Lönnroth, Hans Fromm, Derick Thomson, Matti Kuusi, Väinö Kaukonen, Pirkko Alhoniemi, Vilmos Voigt, Eduard Laugaste, Felix J. Oinas, David E. Bynum, Péter Domokos, Rudolf Schenda, Jan Knappert, Christiane Seydou, Micheline Galley, Jaan Puhvel, Walther Heissig, Jam-dpal rgyal-mtsho, Silke Herrmann, Jia Zhi, Taryo Obayashi and Eino Karhu. Still sealed in plastic. In English. 587 pp.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Text in Finnish. 46 pp. Large stain on the rear cover and last few pages. Light wear to the cover edges. Folded page corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. A near fine copy with minor wear on the covers. The Finnish epic with the original text and a Hungarian translation by István Rácz. Beautiful monochromatic imagery inspired by Rácz's text.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hungarian translation of the Finnish epic. Afterword by Otto Wille Kuusinen, a Finnish communist and Soviet politician. Stylish color illustrations by Szász Endre. Minor war to the covers. Few pages have light fraying on the margin. 622 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. In three languages: Finnish, English and Spanish. The work is a collaboration between the Kalevala Society, the Universities of Joensuu, Jyväskylä and Granada, and the Jyväskylä Art Museum. The theme and purpose of the publication are myths that contain and guide our collective images of the world and people. The myths contained in the Kalevala are ingrained in the minds of Finns as myths of Finnishness. This work focuses on the pictorial expression of myths and visual material. These issues are addressed by scholars of myths, the Kalevala, visual arts and visual expression, as well as visual artists who produce new visual material. Thirteen Spanish painters, graphic artists and photographers make works based on and inspired by the poems of the Kalevala. Artists include Juan Arroyo Salom, Bethánia Barbosa Bezerra de Souza, Nacho Belda Mercado, Raúl Campos López, Ramón J. Freire Santa Cruz, Lola Nieto Vera, Juan Carlos Ramos Guadix, Bartolomé Roca García, Javier Seco Goni, Fernando Machado Baldasano, Luis Alfredo López López, Maria Santos Horcajada Diaz de Espada and Manuel Vélez Cea. 288 pp. Some moderate wear on the covers, otherwise a nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Fourth Hungarian translation of the Finnish epic. Original dust jacket with minor whitening and sunning, and a fine condition cloth-bound book. Old price tags on the back side of the dust jacket. Text in Hungarian. 409 pp with pictures.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Modern Swedish translation of the Finnish epic. First complete Swedish translation since 1860s. Inscribed and signed by the Finnish-Swedish poet Lars Huldén on the title page. Huldén completed the translation with his son Mats. 383 pp. Moderate wear on the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. An abbreviated Slovenian prose translation for youth. Translated from the Russian edition. Impressive black-and-white illustrations. Some tears on the dust jacket. 183 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Text in Hungarian. 111 pp. Minor smudges and rubbing to dust jacket. Light edge wear to covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 3rd Edition. Kalevala is the national epic of Finland. It was compiled by Elias Lönnrot based to poems he and his helpers collected from various areas, mainly in Eastern Finland, Karelia and Ingria. Text in Russian and Finnish. 583 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hungarian translation of the Finnish epic. Afterword by Péter Hajdú; notes compiled by Gábor Bereczki. Beautiful looking special edition in a gorgeous embossed fabric binding. Original cardboard case, that has some wear. The book itself is fine. 334 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. In French. Essays on the Finnish national epic Kalevala. Illustrated. Inscribed and signed by Heikki Kirkinen on the flyleaf. Some wear and creases. 63 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Text in Finnish. 373 pp. Leather bound covers. Edge wear on dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Two small books in good condition. The Finnish-Karelian national epic, printed in Petroskoi, Russia. B&W illustrations by M. Metshekov. Some minor tears to the DJs. Text in Finnish. 302+318 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Text in Italian. 323 pp. Dent on the front cover. Slight wear on the dust jacket.

Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Text in Italian. 421 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Text in English. 521 pp. Signed by Kaarina Brooks. Elias Lönnrot published the Old Kalevalas in 1835. As he says in his foreword, he wanted to get the runes in print although he felt "they were still lacking a great deal" because he was worried they might remain incomplete forever. As soon as it was published, the book became emblem for Finnish literature that was still in its infancy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Two small books in good condition. The Finnish-Karelian national epic in Russian. B&W illustrations by M. Metshekov. Slight fading on the spine of the 2nd books dust jacket and some minor tears. Text in Russian. 441+387 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Text in Finnish. 765 pp + 2 CD and 1 DVD. Wrapped in plastic In honor of the Kalevala's 160th anniversary, SKS publishes Taiteilijoiden Kalevala, a work produced by the Kalevala society, for which works of art have been commissioned from twenty famous Finnish visual artists and composers.