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Runic song information


Runic singers from Ladoga Karelia. From left: Iivana Shemeikka, Iivana Onoila, and Konstantin Kuokka

Runic song[a], also referred to as Rune song, Runo song, or Kalevala song, is a form of oral poetry and national epic historically practiced among the Baltic Finnic peoples. It includes the Finnish epic poems Kalevala and Kanteletar, as well as the Estonian Kalevipoeg.
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Runic song

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Runic song, also referred to as Rune song, Runo song, or Kalevala song, is a form of oral poetry and national epic historically practiced among the Baltic...

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article contains runic characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of runes. Wikisource has...

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epics based on interconnected forms of runo-song, Kalevipoeg and Kalevala, respectively. "Estonian runic song has the same basic form as the Finnish variety...

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Alliterative verse

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The extensive use of alliteration in the so-called Kalevala meter, or runic song, of the Finnic languages provides a close comparison, and may derive directly...

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Kalevala

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learning new poems. Before the 18th century, Kalevala poetry, also known as runic song, was common throughout Finland and Karelia, but in the 18th century it...

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Estonian mythology

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Some traces of the oldest authentic myths may have survived in runic songs. There is a song about the birth of the world – a bird lays three eggs and starts...

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Old English rune poem

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contains runic characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of runes. The Old English rune poem...

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Estonian Folklore Archives

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runic song (regilaul in Estonian) is an archaic folk song tradition that plays an important role in Estonian folklore. The collection of runic songs were...

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Kalevipoeg

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pre-Christian ancient Estonia there existed an oral tradition, known as runic song, of legends explaining the origin of the world. Within old Estonian folklore...

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Old Norse

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by a profound margin. The language is called "runic" because the body of text appears in runes. Runic Old East Norse is characteristically conservative...

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Estonian language

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Ross, Jaan; Lehiste, Ilse (2001). The Temporal Structure of Estonian Runic Songs. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-017032-9. Soosaar, Sven-Erik (2013)...

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Sigurd stones

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Estonia

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The older folk songs are also referred to as regilaulud, songs in the traditional regivärss poetic metre shared by all Baltic Finns. Runic singing was widespread...

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Old School RuneScape

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Rune Eriksen

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Rune Eriksen (born 13 January 1975), also known by his stage name Blasphemer, is a Norwegian musician best known as the former guitarist and songwriter...

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Siegfried Adolf Kummer

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Richter. The runic exercises, comparable to the "runic gymnastics" of Marby, runic dancing and runic songs were taught. Kummer held that "As a we now can...

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Music of Estonia

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are also referred to as runic songs, traditional songs in the poetic metre regivärss that are shared by all Finnic peoples. Runic singing was widespread...

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Codex Runicus

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one of the few runic texts found on parchment. The manuscript's initials are painted various colors and the rubrics are red. Each rune corresponds to...

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Rune Factory Frontier

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Noire into singing a melody called the Spirit's Song to pull spirits underground to create a Dark Rune to make the whale fall and destroy the town out...

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Estonian phonology

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511–562, JSTOR 4178178 Ross, Jaan; Lehiste, Ilse (2001), The temporal structure of Estonian runic songs, The Hague: Walter de Gruyter, ISBN 9783110170320...

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List of Intangible Cultural Heritage elements in Northern Europe

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Jaan Ross; Ilse Lehiste (2001). The Temporal Structure of Estonian Runic Songs. Walter de Gruyter. p. 13. ISBN 978-3-11-017032-0. Retrieved 4 November...

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Stephen Flowers

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1979/80 Flowers founded the Rune-Gild, an initiatory order focused on "the revival of the elder Runic" tradition, advocating runic magic.[citation needed]...

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