Kalevala "Sävelmä"

[phreaker92]

lol , sounds like Ensiferum . So this music was the music where they get their music from .aha

[Svansakuten]

This is called " Vakaa Vanha Wäinämöinen".

[SentiBM]

Hi, I've got a big request. I need someone who speaks Finnish. I uploaded a documentary about The Lord of the Rings on my channel. In that part /watch?v=jfLvYHtcdE4 at 7:30 there is a part of Kalevala. Do you know which part of Kalevala it is? Or even maybe who performs it? Or maybe you could write the lyrics in Finnish for me so I could search for it.

[Tonzai2002]

@SentiBM I'm dancing (Something), with my honey twice, i'm dancing (something) " i really don't understand what she is saying. It's old finnish i think.. but something very close what i said.

[SentiBM]

@Tonzai2002 Thanks for the translation, but I wanted the lyrics in Finnish :) so I could type them into google and find that part of Kalevala and find out who sings it.

[EneriGiilaan]

@SentiBM This is a quite old folk song "Melkutus", alas I'm pretty sure it is not from Kalevala.

For that (at least to me) the lyrics sound a bit too "modern" and "Western-Finnish", but can't say I'm totally sure though. Seems that it utilizes the 8-syllable stanzas of the Kalevala meter, but not the rhyming "rules".

These are lyrics used by Poropetra in their Sinihirwi album:

Miepä tanssin melkutusta

kultani kanssa kappia.

Eipä ole rinnassasi,

niin kiiltäviä nappia.

[Jusarius83]

@Knaakak The most important question is though: Who gives a fuck if you're not interested?

[TheMrNapalm]

pakko kiittää että lisäsit tämän kulttuuriaarteen tänne :)

[KiKeMenda]

VÄINÄMÖINEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE­EEEN!!!

[TheCitybike]

Where can I find the score of this melody? Thank you

[nowotnik]

@TheCitybike

you can find it in the preface for "Kalevala" (oxford press) but in raw version (melody only).

[ravenheart93]

I love that epic it is the best epic I ever read the odyssey doesn't even old a candle to it

[0Psithiros]

Amazing!

Is this music played with a "Kantele"

I would like to know Finish musicians that perform in this traditional way,if anyone could inform me i would be greatfull.

Thank you

[VocaloidMixer]

Aw, I wish the poem was being read along. Anyone know where I can find it? Kinda like Jussi (long living elder of the Kalavela rune-singers), traditional? With no lame bad frikin metal bands?

[Simpson654]

From old folklore we know that there were Ahti (the god of the Sea), Kekri (the goddess of fertility), Ukko (Old Man of the sky, god of thunder and lightning), but all the rest are just conjecture. Most of Finnish mythology was lost after christianity got here. But a folk hero who was against the swedish bishops, Lalli, is still remembered. He killed the bishop with an axe on the ice of Pyhäjärvi, Holy Lake (there are a lot of lakes named as such, but only one is identified as that lake).

[Finargon]

@Simpson654

I thought Rauni was the goddess of fertility and Ukko's wife... :)

and I didn't know about Pyhajärvi, I have read that Lalli killed Piispa Henriki on Köyliönjärvi ..I'm right? , well if I'm not, blame on the picture of Piispa Henrikin Surmaa :D

[jaskamakkara]

@Simpson654 ''But a folk hero who was against the swedish bishops, Lalli, is still remembered.'' Never heard anyone refer to him as a folk hero before. But oh well, whatever floats your boat.

[launaut]

@jaskamakkara why wouldn't he be a hero. finland = fuck authorities

[mikkaramies]

@TheChickenlover2 Siis en mitenkään negatiivisella tavalla meinannu, vaan ihan sillai niinku sanonta tavalla, että ihan koko hommelia vaan meinasin :O

[dominic508]

Go check for Ensiferum's Kalevala melody, also really beautiful

[Tonzai2002]

Serkun kanssa sovittiin että joku kerta stadiin huutelemaan Väinämöistä ja pari kaveria tulee tuohon taakke soittelee tätä kanteleet kädessä. Siis, tietenkin olen pukeutunutkin hyvin, vihreä viitta ja ... Siihen se jääkin ainiin, ja sotamaalaus kasvoille. Nii siis, huutelemaan näitä loruja, ei väinämöistä ^^

[Karllikesmorrowind]

This song was 5000 old.

[mikkaramies]

Monikos kielisellä ja yhelläkö kanteleella vaan on koko roska soitettu?

[lost666soul]

Does anybody know where I can find sheet music for this for my flute.

[Daski69]

how beautiful...

[reaper2ooX]

what a beautiful song

[KristianHyvarinen]

Things like this song make me proud of being a Finn.

[eug177]

Like Hotel California-Eagles

[BaronVaillefendre]

Le Nord...

[nodeterin]

I was searching the net for the notes of this one (prefrably for concert flute) and couldn't find... most probably cuz I don't know Finnish.

Any help would be really appreciated.

[Unknownwhistler]

Just play it by ear. It's a very simple melody

[simonverdad]

@nodeterin Are you really going to make one of us transpose this for you? You really can't figure this out on the flute?

[mTartuffe]

kloiten, look for performances by a pretty well known trio of musicians; The Kirrilian Trio I believe their name to be (named after the region of the former USSR that is closest to Finland). They perform some Runos of the Kalevala. In America, there is a fellow named Carl Rahkonen who occasionally teaches workshops on The Kalevala, and the Kalevala Rhythym, he translates too.

[kloiten]

Hmm... thanks! I'll go check that out when I'm free from my responsibilities.

[trumpetlegs]

The music is wonderful. Who is the illustration by?

[reaperbeam]

mitkä nää soinnut on?

[mTartuffe]

600 years in labor with Vainamoinen. Tough even for a goddess!

[kloiten]

"Seven hundred years she bore it,

For nine lifetimes of a man, ..." (Runo 1: 139-140)

Ilmatar bore Väinämöinen for at least 700 years. Not sure about how much is a liftime of a man, though.

Either way, that's quite a long time.

[simonverdad]

@kloiten that would be approx. 80 yrs. according to the Kalevala.

[Halo3PlayarWut1]

@mTartuffe 700 years.

[null400]

Wonderful

[huntinggods]

Listening to this now answers why the old Finnish religion, when Christianity first came in wasn't even affected by it, unlike all other regions. The ancestral Finns took Christianity and engulfed it in their region, morphing it into their preexisting beliefs. It wasn't until Luther that Finland lost its first faith. Despite this, Finnish culture is still miraculously intact.

[jaskamakkara]

''Finnish culture is still miraculously intact. '' is it really? you can allways tell a scandinavian runestone with its germanic icons and runes. but what did the real finnish architecture look like? I do not know really.

[Simpson654]

@huntinggods

Actually, only knowledge of our Gods we have are from the lutheran bishop Mikael Agricola "It must be a one possessed people that believes in these demons..." and he lists a lot of gods, but does not differentiate between local or greater gods, as they're all demons to him, and Mythologica Finnica compiled in the late 18th century, which has the same failing.

[Kabelczerwony]

@huntinggods The same was with Slavs - most people don't now how many rituals are exactly the same as it was before Christianity came in.

[Mithdiart]

@huntinggods and gladly Kalevala is only slightly hinting at christianity =) I can still read it as if it hadn't been modified by changing some of the parts where god is mentioned in my mind to the original deities we believed in =)

[danmark85]

Well done, Finland (Suomi)!!!

[noxnocturne]

My heart is full when i hear this.

Amazing.

[verdigoA]

secrets of the runes

[ZanyAnton]

Old Man

[tenchixryokomasaki]

Beatiful. Simply beatiful.

[kloiten]

Amzing. I wish I could hear the Kalevala being performed (although I couldn't understand Finnish) someday.

[mTartuffe]

This song is not that far off from the Kalevala melody.

[fuel357]

This song is awesome and the instrument, extremely inspiring. 5 stars

[jazzy12345677]

Tosi hyvä kappale! Soitan tätä munniharpulla useasti.

[Falnky]

Beautiful. What album is this from?

[Youfinnetube]

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