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How is Wainamoinen "old" at the start of the second Rune?
At the end of the first rune of the Kalevala (Crawford's translation), Wainamoinen has just been born. These are the last four lines of this rune:
Thus our hero, Wainamoinen,
Thus the wonderful ...
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In the Kalevala, what is Väinämöinen?
The character of Väinämöinen is central to the Finnish epic the Kalevala. But from reading about him and the stories online, I can't figure out whether he was a god or a mortal man. Some of the myths ...
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