Kalevala company traces its birth to an initiative by writer Elsa Heporauta, who aimed to raise funds for a monument honoring women of the Kalevala epic. To raise money, replicas of ancient Iron Age ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'The Defense of the Sampo,' by early-20th-century Finnish painter Joseph Alanen, was inspired by tales from the Kalevala. Heritage ...

The old stories sung in the forests and lakes of Finland became a book and eventually set off on a journey to the world.

Scenes from Finland’s national epic were set to music by many Finnish composers beyond the best known, Sibelius. These works by Klami, Madetoja and Pylkkänen deserve wider recognition, as these ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SF Studios is set to co-produce and distribute "Kalevala: The Story of Kullervo," a big-budget historical drama based on Finland's ...

"…my attempt to write legends of my own to fit my private languages was the tragic tale of the hapless Kullerva in the Finnish Kalevala. It remains a major matter ...

At 60 degrees north, at high noon on January 6, in Finland, I saw the sun six degrees above the horizon and truly realized we live on a sphere. Some 10,000 years ago a people speaking a ...

“Kalevala,” a compilation of epic poetry drawn from Karelian and Finnish folklore and mythology, is full of violence, but director Antti J. Jokinen – who has adapted the book for his film “Kalevala: ...

(The Conversation) — At the outset of the Kalevala, Finland’s national epic, a singer bemoans his separation from a beloved friend who grew up beside him. Today, the friends rarely meet “näillä ...