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Voknavolok
Voknavolok (russian: Вокна́волок, krl, Vuokkiniemi) is a rural locality ('' selo'') under the administrative jurisdiction of the Town of Kostomuksha of the Republic of Karelia, Russia. Population: Nineteenth-century Vuokkiniemi Demography and economy The census of 1800 put the population of the parish of Vuokkiniemi at 853; by 1900, it stood at 3265. A large proportion of the population was, or was descended from, migrants from Finland: around 1890, 34% of the population descended from migrants from Ostrobothnia, 25% from Kainuu, and 18% from Finnish Karelia, while statistics from 1902 to 1908 show no evidence of people using Russian as their primary language or having Russian identity. The economy of the parish was a mixed subsistence economy of a kind found widely in subarctic Eurasia. This included livestock-rearing, local freshwater fishing, and hunting (until an 1892 ban on trapping). It featured slash-and-burn agriculture (though this was circumscribed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republic Of Karelia
The Republic of Karelia (russian: Респу́блика Каре́лия, Respublika Kareliya; ; krl, Karjalan tašavalta; ; fi, Karjalan tasavalta; vep, Karjalan Tazovaldkund, Ludic: ''Kard’alan tazavald''), also known as just Karelia (russian: Каре́лия, Ка́рьяла; krl, Karjala), is a republic of Russia situated in Northwest Russia. The republic is a part of the Northwestern Federal District, and covers an area of , with a population of 603,067 residents. Its capital is Petrozavodsk. The modern Karelian Republic was founded as an autonomous republic within the Russian SFSR by the Resolution of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK) on 27 June 1923 and by the Decree of the VTsIK and the Council of People's Commissars of 25 July 1923, from the Karelian Labour Commune. From 1940 to 1956, it was known as the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic, one of the union republics in the Soviet Union. In 1956, it was once again made an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamlet (place)
A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village. Its size relative to a Parish (administrative division), parish can depend on the administration and region. A hamlet may be considered to be a smaller settlement or subdivision or satellite entity to a larger settlement. The word and concept of a hamlet has roots in the Anglo-Norman settlement of England, where the old French ' came to apply to small human settlements. Etymology The word comes from Anglo-Norman language, Anglo-Norman ', corresponding to Old French ', the diminutive of Old French ' meaning a little village. This, in turn, is a diminutive of Old French ', possibly borrowed from (West Germanic languages, West Germanic) Franconian languages. Compare with modern French ', Dutch language, Dutch ', Frisian languages, Frisian ', German ', Old English ' and Modern English ''home''. By country Afghanistan In Afghanistan, the counterpart of the hamlet is the Qila, qala (Dari language, Dari: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuli Paulaharju
Samuli Paulaharju (14 April 1875 – 6 February 1944) was a Finnish teacher, ethnographer and writer. He was granted with the title of Professor in October 1943. Paulaharju was born in Kurikka in 1875. He studied in the Jyväskylä Teacher Seminary and graduated in 1901. After graduation, he first worked in Uusikirkko but in 1904 he moved to Oulu to work as a crafts and arts teacher in a school for deaf-mute children. Paulaharju spent summers for field trips collecting folklore, in the winter he wrote his works and taught in the school. He wrote 21 books, hundreds of journal articles, took over eight thousand photographs and made thousands of drawings on his trips. Since 1908 Paulaharju also worked as a curator for the Northern Ostrobothnia museum in Oulu. Nowadays Paulaharju's study and library can be found in the museum. Samuli Paulaharju is buried in the Oulu Cemetery The Oulu Cemetery ( fi, Oulun hautausmaa) is a cemetery located in the Intiö district close to the city cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axel Borenius
Axel may refer to: People * Axel (name), all persons with the name Places * Axel, Netherlands, a town ** Capture of Axel, a battle at Axel in 1586 Arts, entertainment, media * ''Axel'', a 1988 short film by Nigel Wingrove * ''Axel'', a Cirque du Soleil show * '' Axël'', an 1890 drama play by Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam * Axel (dance turn), a type of turn performed in dance * Axel lift, a movement in pair skating * Axel jump, a type of jump in figure skating * " Axel F", the 1985 instrumental theme song of ''Beverly Hills Cop'' by Harold Faltermeyer Companies, organizations * Axel Hotels, hotel chain * Axel Springer SE, largest digital publishing house in Europe Other uses * Axel Maersk, Danish container ship * Citroën Axel, automobile made by Citroën * Typhoon Axel (other), multiple storms named Axel See also * Aksel * Axl (other) * Axle An axle or axletree is a central shaft for a rotating wheel or gear. On wheeled vehicles, the axle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot
''Suomen kansan vanhat runot'' (The Ancient Songs of the Finnish People), or SKVR, is an edition of traditional Finnic-language verse containing around 100,000 different songs, and including the majority of the songs that were the sources of the ''Kalevala'' and related poetry. The collection is available, free, online. Contents The original fourteen volumes (published in around 32 physical volumes) were published by the Finnish Literature Society from 1908 to 1948.Tuukka Karlsson,"Come here, you are needed": Registers in Viena Karelian Communicative Incantations (PhD thesis, Helsinki University, 2022). A supplement, containing, among other things, some of the field notes of Cristfried Ganander and Elias Lönnrot, was added in 1997. The supplement also contains poems on highly sexual subjects, such as spells to obtain a sexual partner or to improve sexual performance, which had previously been considered unsuitable for publication. Most of the songs in the collection come from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish Literature Society
The Finnish Literature Society ( fi, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura ry or fi, SKS) was founded in 1831 to promote literature written in Finnish. Among its first publications was the ''Kalevala'', the Finnish national epic A national epic is an epic poem or a literary work of epic scope which seeks or is believed to capture and express the essence or spirit of a particular nation—not necessarily a nation state, but at least an ethnic or linguistic group with as .... External links Official website''' Finnish writers' organisations Organisations based in Helsinki {{Europe-org-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zacharias Topelius The Elder
Zechariah most often refers to: * Zechariah (Hebrew prophet), author of the Book of Zechariah * Zechariah (New Testament figure), father of John the Baptist Zechariah or its many variant forms and spellings may also refer to: People * Zechariah (given name), a given name (with list of people and fictional characters with the name); includes all the variants (Zacharias, Zecharias, Zechariah, etc.) *Zacharias (surname) and various related forms (with list of people with the name) * Zachary, a given name (and list of people with the name) *Zakariya, list of people with Arabic variants of this name; includes all the variants (Zakariyya, Zakaria, Zekaria) Bible * Book of Zechariah * Zechariah of Israel, king of Israel for 6 months c. 752 BCE Places *Saint-Zacharie, Quebec, a municipality in Canada *Zacharia, Kentucky *Zachariah, Kentucky *Zacarias, São Paulo, a municipality in Brazil * Zacharia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a town * Zekharia, a moshav in Israel * Az-Zakariy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish Nationalism
Nationalism was a central force in the history of Finland for the last two centuries. The Finnish national awakening in the mid-19th century was the result of members of the Swedish-speaking upper classes deliberately choosing to promote Finnish culture and language as a means of nation building—i.e. to establish a feeling of unity between all people in Finland including (and not of least importance) between the ruling elite and the ruled peasantry. The publication in 1835 of the Finnish national epic, the ''Kalevala'', a collection of traditional myths and legends which is the folklore common to the Finns and to the Karelian people (the Finnic Russian Orthodox people who inhabit the Lake Ladoga-region of eastern Finland and present-day NW Russia), stirred the nationalism that later led to Finland's independence from Russia. Nationalism was contested by the pro-Russian element and by the internationalism of the labor movement. The result was a tendency toward class conflict ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synty
''Synty'' ('origin, birth, aetiology', pl. ''synnyt'') is an important concept in Finnish mythology. ''Syntysanat'' ('origin-words') or ''syntyloitsut'' ('origin-charms') provide an explanatory, mythical account of the origin of a phenomenon (such as an illness), material (such as iron), or species (such as a bear), and were an important part of traditional Finno-Karelian culture, particularly in healing rituals. Although much in the Finnish traditional charms is paralleled elsewhere, 'the role of aetiological and cosmogonic myths' in Finnic tradition 'appears exceptional in Eurasia'. The major study remains that by Kaarle Krohn, published in 1917. Meanings of ''synty'' The term ''synty'' is used in this article and in a range of scholarship as a genre-label, but it had a wide variety of meanings. ''Synty'' transparently derives from ''syntyä'' (‘come into existence, be born’) and means ‘birth’, ‘origin’, ‘aetiology’, and so forth. Its meanings can be literal a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnic Incantations
Finnic incantations or charms ( fi, loitsut, singular ) are a body of traditional literature in the Finnic languages whose purpose was to effect magical change on the world. They were most often used to ward off diseases and injuries and to ensure economic prosperity in farming, hunting, fishing and cattle-raising, though spells were used in various social situations and everyday tasks. Such incantations were in widespread use from the first extensive documentation of Finnic-language cultures around the late eighteenth century through to the advance of modernisation in the early twentieth; one marker of this popularity is that more than 30,000 verse spells were collected from Finland and Karelia and published in the series ''Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot''.Ulla Piela, 'Loitsut 1800-luvun Pohjois-Karjalassa', Kalevalaseuran vuosikirja, 68 (1989), 82–107. Western Finland In western Finland, as widely in European charm traditions, the utterance of an invocation was considered to work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish Poetry
Finnish poetry is the poetry from Finland. It is usually written in the Finnish language or Swedish language, but can also include poetry written in Northern Sámi or other Sámi languages. It has its roots in the early folk music of the area, and still has a thriving presence today. The retrieval of these old folk songs in the 19th century reinvigorated the countries sense of poetic identity and influenced later poets. The best-known opus of Finnish poetry is the mythical epic ''Kalevala'', compiled by Elias Lönnrot. Arguably the Kalevala established Finland in equal status with Sweden as a national language. Poetry continues to be popular in Finland today and is marked by the individual directions its poets take not limited to traditional schools or ideologies. The contemporary form has taken on a conversational, matter-of-fact description often unmotivated by social, political, or moral agendas. The worlds of everyday life are prominent environments for discussing suffering, d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
