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Kalevala
[ kah-luh-vah-luh; Finnish kah-le-vah-lah ]
noun
- (italics) the national epic of Finland (1835, enlarged 1849), compiled and arranged by Elias Lönnrot from popular lays of the Middle Ages.
- the home or land of Kaleva; Finland.
Kalevala
/ ˈkɑlɛvɑlɑ; ˌkɑːləˈvɑːlə /
noun
- the land of the hero Kaleva, who performed legendary exploits
- the Finnish national epic in which these exploits are recounted, compiled by Elias Lönnrot from folk poetry in 1835 to 1849
Word History and Origins
Origin of Kalevala1
Word History and Origins
Origin of Kalevala1
Example Sentences
It was a delivery reminiscent of the program’s opener, “Lemminkäinen’s Return,” the fourth legend from Sibelius’s “Lemminkäinen Suite,” based on the “Kalevala,” Finland’s national epic.
But the writers Jon Favreau and Noah Kloor bring their pieces together at the end, by returning to Din and Bo-Katan after they escape Kalevala.
It does not make much logistical sense for Din and Grogu to fly all the way to Kalevala from Nevarro, then go back to Tatooine, and then return to the Mandalorian system again.
Kalevala: Din takes Grogu to Kalevala, “another planet in the Mandalorian system.”
A 1907 poster by Finnish artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela is even more striking, borrowing from the “Kalevala,” a Finnish proto-epic, to depict a male driver forcibly carrying off a naked woman in a car that seems to be flying through a sky of stars and fire.
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