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050 4 _aPH
100 1 _aHalme, Kaarle,
_d1864-1946
245 1 0 _aKaksi lupausta
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2026-02-16
508 _aTapio Riikonen
520 _a"Kaksi lupausta" by Kaarle Halme is a three-act play written in the early 20th century. It centers on the Varstala farm family, where daughter Helmi’s impulsive engagement to the upright farmer Matti clashes with his conscience after a life‑threatening accident and with her quiet attachment to neighbor Eino. Through Antero’s jubilant return as a fresh graduate, the play weighs love against duty and pride, and contrasts scholarly ambition with the dignity of farming. The mood mixes homely humor with moral struggle and tender, restrained romance. The opening of the play unfolds in Varstala’s main room on a spring morning: Antero arrives home as a new graduate, the household celebrates, and news spreads that Ollikka’s Matti and his young nephew narrowly escaped drowning when their horse plunged into the river. Helmi, subdued, reveals she has agreed to marry Matti, while Antero teases out her true feelings and suspects her bond with the neighbor Eino, who then visits; amid friendly banter, the father urges Antero toward agricultural studies over a civil‑service path. Matti later confides that, in the crisis, he vowed to give his farm to his nephew if they were saved, a promise irreconcilable with bringing a wife to a farm he has pledged away; a proposed workaround (buying a new farm) falters, and Helmi releases him, parting as friends. Relieved and newly hopeful about Eino—who has confessed his sorrow at her engagement—Helmi readies for a frank step toward him, while her mother warns that any next promise must be final; the scene closes with the family weighing love, honor, and the practical hurdle of Eino’s debts. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cHämeenlinna: Arvi A. Karisto Oy., 1926
653 _aFinnish drama -- 20th century
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77960
999 _c118680
_d118680