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100 1 _aHärkönen, Iivo,
_d1882-1941
245 1 0 _aTulia y.m. kuvauksia
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-09-02
505 0 _aTulia -- Karjalaisessa kalmistossa -- Palakia -- Pajassa -- Runolaulajan uni -- Jehkin Iivanan luoksi -- Saloilla -- Luostariin!
508 _aTapio Riikonen
520 _a"Tulia y.m. kuvauksia" by Iivo Härkönen is a collection of literary sketches and stories written in the early 20th century. The work paints intimate, folkloric portraits of Karelian village life—its rites of passage, ancestral memory, hard work, and song—through vivid scenes and emblematic figures. Central vignettes follow Palakia from birth and courtship to marriage, honor village singers and blacksmiths, and celebrate runo traditions that bind a community to its past and to nature. The opening of the collection moves from a nightscape of scattered fires that symbolically trace a human life—from birth sauna to wedding bonfires and the final funeral candle—to a meditative walk in a Karelian grave grove where the whispering spruces awaken voices of the ancestors. It then settles into the tale of Palakia: her hard-won christening, upbringing under the song-rich guidance of Ontro-vaari, learning the forest’s language as a cowherd, a near-loss in the woods, and a tender courtship with Niemen Iivana that leads to vibrant village weddings and a quietly radiant married life. A forge scene follows, where a blacksmith’s monologue turns the paja into a “temple of work,” extolling fire, patience, and endurance. Finally, a runo singer, Äimäjärven Iivana, dreams of a hill becoming a chorus of kantele, is invited to a grand festival, and journeys with fellow singers through Sortavala and Viipuri to Helsinki, where their epic songs and women’s laments move audiences in a national celebration of folk music. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cPorvoossa: Werner Söderström, 1904
653 _aFinnish literature
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76798
999 _c117523
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