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Aino's Fate

Illustration done during Cynthia Sheppard's SmArt School class, inspired by the Finnish national epic Kalevala.

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2023-01-22

The Death of Balder and everything surrounding it is a deeply intricate and fascinating topic, clues to which we find scattered across everything from Old English poetry to the Finnish Kalevala. Yet as relates to Rurik (and ultimately Amleth), it is but one competing background

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2022-05-01

The artwork used for the cover is Tolkien's painting called "The Land of Pohja", the name of a location in Kalevala. This is one of Tolkien's experiments with symbolic, abstract, and imaginative scenes inspired by "strange visions", which he did in around 1911.

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2020-12-13

Art Influences

Another influence on Paul Bonner: the Finnish artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela, particularly known for his images of the Kalevala.

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2020-08-28

imagination was shaped by the His 1st prose tale (interspersed with poetry) was a retelling of the story of Kullervo (published posthumously, ed. by V. Flieger), a figure who later inspired Túrin Turambar (art by )

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2020-02-28

“Ossian” inspired the brothers Grimm to seek out German folk-literature, & Elias Lönnrot to compile Finnish tales into the Kalevala. English scholars, aghast at the lack of ancient epics of their own, conscripted Beowulf (a story about a Geat, & set in Denmark) as “Old English”.

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2019-10-27

Festival guest in Helsinki Comics Festival 2018:

Marko Raassina is known for his humoristic adaptions of the Finnish national epoch Kalevala. He draws digitally, and at the moment Raassina is making illustrations for a children’s book containing stories from White Karelia.

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2018-08-24

I have to agree with that A Letter From Home is *amazing*, definitely one of my personal favorites. Though I think my actual favorite is Quest for Kalevala. Well that and On A Silver Platter (for fav comedic one anyway) but c'mon it's hard to argue with imagery like this

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2018-07-17