belt asteroid 2243 Lönnrot was named after Lönnrot. Ellen Kushner's short fantasy story 'The Threefold World' features Elias Lönnrot as the protagonist...
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Kalevala (section Elias Lönnrot)
[ˈkɑleʋɑlɑ]) is a 19th-century compilation of epic poetry, compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology, telling an epic...
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Elias Lönnrot is a monument in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, by a Finnish sculptor Emil Wikström, unveiled in 1902. The bronze and granite monument...
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actor Elias Lianos, Greek businessman Elias Lindholm (born 1994), Swedish ice hockey player Elias Lönnrot (1802–1884), Finnish philologist Elias Loomis...
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England: likely major influences upon Tolkien were the Brothers Grimm and Elias Lönnrot, who shaped mythologies for their countries. Dimitra Fimi writes that...
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important 'awakeners' or promoters of Finnish nationalism, alongside Elias Lönnrot and J. L. Runeberg. Snellman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the son...
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Finnish folklore and the main character in the national epic Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot. Väinämöinen was described as an old and wise man, and he possessed...
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Eduard Ahrens (section Eduard Ahrens and Elias Lönnrot)
to study and improve Ahrens's Estonian liturgical language. In 1844, Elias Lönnrot, the author of the Kalevala, met with Ahrens in Kuusalu. This visit...
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from the Karelian and Finnish 19th century epic poetry Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot, curses beasts from the woods to attack his tormenter, the Maiden of...
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eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM". Verlyn Flieger wrote that Elias Lönnrot intentionally created the Kalevala as a mythology for Finland, giving...
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rosetti (rosette). The Finnish word sima is an old name for honey, which Elias Lönnrot used to mean a drink in his epic poetry, the Kalevala. Mead was originally...
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epic poem Kalevala, a 19th century compilation of Finnish mythology by Elias Lönnrot, which Tolkien stated had powerfully affected him. He further stated...
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Kanteletar is a collection of Finnish folk poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot. It is considered to be a sister collection to the Finnish national epic Kalevala...
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Pentikäinen, 1999, p. 8. Elias Lönnrot; John Martin Crawford (tr.) [1888]. Kalevala : the Epic Poem of Finland — Complete by Lönnrot and Crawford at Project...
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front of the Helsinki Central railway station and the monuments to Elias Lönnrot and Johan Vilhelm Snellman. His parents were construction foreman Johan...
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published the first Swedish-Finnish dictionary, and between 1866 and 1880 Elias Lönnrot compiled the first Finnish-Swedish dictionary. In the same period, Antero...
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and infrastructure, and much of it remains wilderness. Finnish author Elias Lönnrot collected most of the poems and materials for the epic poem Kalevala...
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the Great Depression. Elias Lönnrot; Rainer Knapas (2002), Vandraren : reseberättelser från Karelen 1828-1842 / Elias Lönnrot ; utgivna av Rainer Knapas...
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a passage from the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic compiled by Elias Lönnrot in the 19th century. The scene portrayed is taken from the 43rd song...
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Tolkien may have been intentionally imitating the philological style of Elias Lönnrot, compiler of the Finnish epic, the Kalevala; or of St Jerome, Snorri...
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confusion with Ahti Saarelainen, the hero. In the Kalevala the compiler Elias Lönnrot conflated several mythological persons into the main characters in an...
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central character in Finnish folklore and the national epic Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot. Väinämöinen was described as an old and wise man, and he possessed...
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been something like the surviving Norse myths. He could not do what Elias Lönnrot did in Finland, for example: travel the countryside to gather folk tales...
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influenced Elias Lönnrot, compiler of the epic Kalevala; as a result, Ganander has been later perceived as a kind of "Lönnrot before Lönnrot." Mythologia...
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Japan. The name Aino, meaning "the only one" in Finnish, was devised by Elias Lönnrot, who compiled, from surviving oral folk sources which he had collected...
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Finnish. It was the birthplace of one of Finland's most famous writers, Elias Lönnrot, the compiler of the Kalevala. Prior to its consolidation into Lohja...
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20th century; in 1940, there were only 8,000 inhabitants in Jyväskylä. Elias Lönnrot, the compiler of the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, gave the city...
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Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (b. 1795) 1884 – Elias Lönnrot, Finnish physician and philologist (b. 1802) 1897 – Antoine Thomson...
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de Mal Lara (1524–1571) Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther (c. 1809–1891) Elias Lönnrot (1802–1884) Samuel Adalberg (1868–1939) Dimitrios Loukatos (1908–2003)...
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folksingers of her sex. She was a strong influence on Kanteletar by Elias Lönnrot. Mateli Magdalena Kuivalatar was born 8 May 1771, and her family belonged...
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