| The event Ugric Rumble will host the sixth world championship of Kalevala chanting. |
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| It is almost uniquely Finnish, lines in descriptions of the trip to the imaginary world having counterparts in the Kalevala and also in Sami practices. |
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| In the 1890s Finnish nationalism based on the Kalevala spread, and Jean Sibelius became famous for his vocal symphony Kullervo. |
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| In the Finnish epic Kalevala, a swan lives in the Tuoni river located in Tuonela, the underworld realm of the dead. |
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| The Veps are the only Baltic Finnish people with no significant corpus of Kalevala meter oral poetry. |
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| Tolkien has highlighted the importance of Kalevala as a source for his legendarium, including The Lord of the Rings. |
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| In Finland the most famous collection of folk poetry is by far the Kalevala, which is the national epic of the country. |
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| In Kalevala, Antero Vipunen is a giant shaman that possesses mighty spells dating to the creation. |
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| The publication in 1835 of the Finnish national epic, Kalevala, was a founding stone of Finnish nationalism and ethnogenesis. |
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| Much of Finland's classical music is influenced by traditional Karelian melodies and lyrics, as comprised in the Kalevala. |
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| Swanhunter is a small-scale opera only 70 minutes long aimed at seven-year-olds and upwards and takes the story of Lemminkainen from the Kalevala, a book of Finnish myths. |
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| If we admit poetic lipograms, then a 610-letter portion of John Martin Crawford's 1888 translation of the Finnish epic poem The Kalevala may count. |
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| Kalevala is quite different from the legends of other Nordic nations in that its fabled heroes apply magic more often than violence to solve their challenges. |
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| Another interesting project planned in Oulu is the Kalevala Theme Park. |
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| The second piece of evidence for the ten-year anniversary reaction is Tolkien's rewriting of the story of Kullervo from the Finnish epic, the Kalevala. |
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| In addition, Tolkien first read William Forsell Kirby's translation of the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, while attending King Edward's School. |
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