Kalevala Memes

poloisilla Pohjan meemeillä

[nettisivustakatsoja]

Vaka Vanha Väinämöinen Tietäjä iän ikuinen Vaan eipä tiennyt tietäjäinen Eipä arvata osannut Että viihdykkeeksi villi vesain Hulluksi huvitukseksi Suomitumblriin sullottaisiin Ihmeteltäväksi kaiken kansain.

Kakkossetti Kalevala-suomimeemejä. Ykkössetti on Neekkiksen tekemä. Bonuksena:

[suruhuntu]

[homunculus-argument]

Jos olisi Captain American henkeen Kapteeni Suomi, miltä se näyttäisi?

[ruttotohtori]

[kalevalamemes]

Viikinkimytologia: Fenrir on jättiläismäinen susi, joka on lukittu katkaisemattomin kahlein maailman loppuun saakka, jolloin se pääsee irti.

Kreikkalainen mytologia: Medusa on gorgo, hirvittävä käärmehiuksinen nainen jonka katse muuttaa kiveksi.

Hindulainen mytologia: Airavata on suuri valkoinen elefantti jolla on neljä syöksyhammasta ja seitsemän kärsää.

Kiinalainen mytologia: Tiangou on suuri koiraa muistuttava olento, joka auringonpimennyksen aikaan nielaisee auringon.

Atsteekkimytologia: Cipactli on muinainen merihirviö, krokotiilin, kalan ja rupikonnan risteytys, jonka joka nivelessä on nälkäinen kita

Suomalainen mytologia: Se on Haahu. Se haahuilee.

[kalevalamemes]

joka päivä on Kalevalan päivä

[noerttiprinsessa]

Kalevala drinking game

For beginners: Take a sip for every “Vaka vanha Väinämöinen”.

Badass version:Take a sip for every alliteration.

Kippis

[rainedrew]

I’m finally reading Kalevala, and I don’t know if it’s just the translation but I’m really liking Väinämöinen’s lines.

[pyhahomobonus]

Yritin tehdä Kalevala meemi

[swordsswordsswords]

According to Finnish folklore you can get pregnant by eating a lingonberry

[immoren]

I didn’t expect to see this sort of works when I googled for “trochaic tetrameter”.

[sandsvendor100]

*Seymour Enjoying Such A Pleasant Little Brunch With Ilmatar And Vainamoinen*

[gabthegod-deactivated20210204]

Have fun!

[sandsvendor100]

[kalevalamemes]

This page is golden :D Thanks for this magnificent page!

Thank you!! I’m sorry I haven’t updated it in quite a while, but glad people are still enjoying it!

[kalevalamemes]

Thanks to you I finished my project in time and I can now appreciate all the memes to it's fullest

:D and they said my Scandinavian studies degree would never come in handy!

[kalevalamemes]

Hey! I'm doing a project about Kalevala and since I'm norwegian I can't read finnish, so my question is; what event is your fav, and where can I read about it?

Hello! My favorite story from Kalevala has always been the Aino story, mostly because I like the idea of turning into fish just to bug an ex-fiance. The bullet points are here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aino_%28mythology%29

And the painting is worth a thousand words: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gallen_Kallela_The_Aino_Triptych.jpg

Here’s an English translation of the Aino part of Kalevala that has a nice synopsis on top: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25953/25953-h/25953-h.htm#Runo_IV_The_Fate_of_Aino

I hope this helps! :)

[kalevalamemes]

A FITTING VENGEANCE AND NOT AT ALL AN OVERREACTION

[aurinkossa]

You left out the part where Kullervo does this by feeding all of her cows to the bears, enchanted the bears to look like the cows, AND THEN killed her with said bears when she tried to milk them because they looked like her cows.

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I don't think I ever wrote in to say that this is the best thing on tumblr I've ever seen! It is beautiful and magnificent and I thank you for it!

:D thank you!! I only wish we had more material, but that Lönnrot hardly writes at all these days. Still holding out for that sequel...

[beautiful-basque-country]

Look what we’ve found: a beautiful Finnish tale in Euskara!! We’re not sure whether this story  is part of Kalevala, though, maybe inesbc2001 can give us more details ^_~.

Click on the pictures to read it in Basque, translation to English below:

The fire’s birth (Finnish tale)

A long time ago, Ukko, lord of the sky, accidentally created fire. He hit one nail with his sword and puf! a spark was lit, a red and living spark.

The spark fell to Earth, and it was going to be extinguished when it touched the water of a lake, but then… a trout did a somersault out of the water and suddenly swallowed it. The trout swallowed it, yes, and then a salmon jumped and swallowed the trout. But, meanwhile, the spark was inside, shining, inextinguishable. Then, a pike jumped and chas! It swallowed the salmon who had the trout inside, the one with the unquenchable spark.

In the meantime, on the bank of that lake, the old Vainamoinen was fishing. The pike, not having enough with the trout and the salmon, bit the hook too. And the old man, pulling with all his strength, got the pike who had the salmon who had the trout who had the spark.

- Yay! – he said, out of happiness.

Vainamoinen took a knife out and opened the pike, and then appeared the salmon, and then the trout, and the spark, fiii, came out shining, inextinguishable. If the red and living spark had fallen into the water, it would have extinguished, but it fell into the ground and lit the straw very quickly. It lit the straw, and the straw’s fire would have lit the trees and created an incredible wildfire, fri-fri-fri, the wildfire would have been incredible if the old Vainamoinen hadn’t caught the fire and put it in a copper pan. Uff, if he hadn’t succeded…

This way, Vainamoinen got to catch in a pan the fire who was as playful as a trout, as jumping as a salmon and as hungry as a pike, because the fire indeed, fru-fru-fru, consumes everything. Since that day, the old man left it in our hands. And if it didn’t happen this way, it could have been that way.