oldinion so should the Ring if the Nibelung and the Silmarilian.

I saw one back in the 80s. It was all in Finnish, of course.

That would be some trippy extended visual Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

Maybe an AAA video game would do

@@huntersmith8586 I'd love to see a filmed version of the Ring with all the special effects that can't be done on stage, like flying horses, proper giants, dragon and everything.

Kalevala seems very gnostic, and I suppose your first paragraph explains why gnosticism was such a popular idea. I'm Finnish but I didn't really think about that aspect of the Kalevala before reading The Silmarillion by Tolkien, where such ideas pervade the story everywhere (and which otherwise heavily and directly borrowed from Kalevala, for example of the song-battle between Väinämöinen and Joukahainen). I know this comment is 4 years old, but I'm interested if you think there's anything to this idea. Maybe I just see gnosticism everywhere.

Love your comment. Thanks for singing.

Both men and women sang these songs.

You = Hotel California.

make it traditional: some sami-type hand drums, a mouth harp, spoons, some joiking. awesome.

@@angelinejohnson9511 nice idea💡... anyways, our Finnish epic Kalevala is maybe more associated with Carelian instruments, like Vainamoisen's string instrument Kantele, with it's typical sound, accompanying the Kalevalan story telling style of allitteration, parallelism, rhythms etc. The traditional sami joiking would do of course as well as the artistic form is always free. ( the Sami people's northern areas in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia are a regional independent part of itself)

But I'm trying to help you LIVE.

@@TomHogan and live much richer lives, indeed.

this is the best. the actual best.

Now do the Mahabharata. Go.

Catherine Terracini That would be wonderful to watch

+Tom Hogan (Scott Sandwich) That's because it's brilliant, old man. This rocks!!! You make the meter work, it's excellent!

how da bleep ya from land down... ah!! ... must b cultural insight by disobediance or fruit regulations.

Jewsus

That was the hardest part! Thanks for noticing. :)

So its all in the Game of Thrones! This guy has some serious teaching skills.

+HooDatDonDar I do it everywhere I go. My living room is just a green screen, and every morning I just recite the epic narrative of my workplace.

I relate.

+KaregoAt Agreed, obviously. But the bear gets a highlight at the end, so I was holding poetic restraint :) Cheers!

It's so lovely! And weird. And lovely!

I've closed the gap on this comment. Getting closer!

I like to play with it, but not stick to it, you know? I turn it into mostly 8 syllables, but toy with bending it a lot more than the original did. It is still in the heart of it though! I just bend the rules to suit the Aussie instincts :)

You win. Does the translation work for you?

@@TomHogan We read this at university, and it's really good. Alliterations and everything :D I really wish this got a good adaptation, not some Hollywoodized mess.

Just came back to KZfaq to let you know I finally got rid of it this week.

I believe ancient civilisations invented MTV around the year 11000BC, so this all checks out.

Tom Hogan So have you done it yet? I really hope so. 🙏🏻

If it helps, I still don't get it :)

I'm from Minnesota, United States. my heritage is finnish, so my last name is. I understand it as an uncommon last name in finland as well. Also hoping most Finn's aren't as racist as your handle.

Not sure what the racist handle is! But hooray for Tuura's everywhere!

Prove it.

@@TomHogan prove what?

@@89burni haaa sorry I totally misread what you wrote! I didn't mean to come across like an ass :)

@@TomHogan hahah no worries hehe

You should be able to activate the captions in KZfaq - there should be options to have captions in Finnish & English. Otherwise, it's also at the video captioning page at DotsHub here: dotsub.com/view/ba8059a7-0b68-4d0b-99ad-270f2aa08995

It's been three years and they haven't approached me yet. Maybe I gotta pitch it to Netflix.

Joona Vainio Can you prove this? Do you have a link to the original version that you say differs from this one? Thanks.

I also am like that sometimes.

I'm still tired from performing it the first time :)

lol! i'm not sure is it possible to sum it up better., it's like 300 pages of poems.. the big stories are effectively shortened in this video.. :D but hey i'll try if you want to read individual stories, you can start with these: creation of world, story of "miss" air (ilmatar) and water's mother (veen emonen), birth of väinämöinen, his journey from water to land.., lands were empty and pellervoinen is asked to come seed trees, great oak grows from ashes, it grow too enormous and a guy in copper outfit comes and cut it down.. then: meeting/collision of väinämöinen and joukahainen.. väinämöinen ends up in tuonela (underworld maybe).. ilmarinen forges a sampo (sampo create wealth/ salt /flour /?) for the hostess of pohjola, because väinämöinen promised her for helping him out earlier and ilmarinen is granted to marry one of pohjola's hostess' daughters.. from there on, there's tales about all 3, väinämöinen, lemminkäinen and ilmarinen going to pohjola to get a wife, 2 of them have to do near-impossible jobs for the hostess of pohjola, in which lemminkäinen fails, but ilmarinen successes. väinämöinen can't get a wife from pohjola because he's too old to compete with younger ilmarinen.. lemminkäinen got shot during his last task because of his prior arrogance/pride of not even insulting a "wet hat" shepherd when he verbally attacked every other one in illmarinen's wedding.. anyway ilmarinen got a bride, lemminkäinen tried to mess up the wedding, and ends up in years of war with pohjola.. time go and somehow ilmarinen lost the bride(?), he forged a substitute-wifey from gold and silver and finds her too cold to sleep next to and then goes to pohjola to get the hostess' second daughter, and he ends up stealing the maiden, and on the way home the daughter insults ilmarinen, after which he turned the woman to a seagull.. all this leads to ilmarinen going to väinämöinen telling how they're living fat in pohjola with the sampo... they decide to get their 3-headed party of väinämöinen, lemminkäinen and ilmarinen and go to pohjola and rob the sampo to bring it to kalevala.. big magics and battling on land sea and air ends up breaking the sampo while on sea, and luckily waves brought some crumbs to shores of kalevala to enrich the lands. hostess is angry afterwards and sends multiple deceases across world as well as captures the sun, the moon and all the fires from houses of kalevala.. then a fire spark (or a corpuscle) falls from sky to water, gets swallowed by a fish (the fish get eaten by another, and it gets eaten by another), väinämöinen and ilmarinen goes to catch the sparkle from the fish with a huge fishnet and eventually do it.. as the fishes get opened, the sparkle jumps out and burns lands out of control, until väinämäinen catches the fire corpuscle and brings fire back to houses.. they do healing from fire wounds, and after that ilmarinen starts forging a sun and a moon, which did not work as they thought it would.. väinämöinen goes head-chopping to pohjola to get the sun and moon back, but sun and moon are locked inside rock /mountain, behind many locks... väinämöinen goes back to kalevala and asks ilmarinen for metal weaponry with which to go force open the mountain ../ other story says that ilmarinen just starts forging shackles for hostess' neck., either way, after hostess hears this clanging in ilmarinen's smithery, she fears for her own life and lets the sun and the moon out to their original places.. so most of kalevala are going around these 4 characters, väinämöinen, lemminkäinen, ilmarinen and the hostess of pohjola, louhi. besides their story kalevala got story of kullervo, in my opinion separate from other kalevala, as well as story of marjatta, aka birth of jesus.. the story of joukahainen is kinda bit mystery to me but still very interesting.. and feels essential... now, if you did read my little sum-up, you can try to figure the story on deeper level.. if these 4 characters were metaphors, like pekka ervast suggested.. väinämöinen as will power, ilmarinen as thought power, lemminkäinen as feeling power, pohjola as the subconscious mind (or night conscious), and kalevala as conscious mind (day conscious).., you'll get a whole new story..

Well it's all greek to me.

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Tell me about it.

@@TomHogan I'm honored by your reply