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unusual facts about national epic



Brännö

Beowulf, England's national epic, relates that Breca the Bronding was the childhood friend of the hero Beowulf and Widsith tells that Breca later was the lord of the Brondings.


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Aligudarz

The city of Aligudarz was once called Al-e Goodarz (meaning sons or tribe of Goodarz, a mythical Iranian hero from the Persian national epic Shahnameh).

Álvar Fáñez

He became the subject of legend, being transformed by the Poema de Mio Cid, Spain's national epic, into Álvar Fáñez Minaya, a loyal vassal and commander under Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, El Cid, during the latter's exile and his conquest of Valencia.

Anne Vabarna

In her lifetime she recorded over 140,000 verses, most notably her composition of the Setu national epic 'Peko', depicting the tale of the Setonian hero who provides freedom for the Setu people.

Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov

One of the most famous translation – is the Kazakh national epic song Kyz-Zhibek.

Domenico Comparetti

In the Kalewala and the Traditional Poetry of the Finns (English translation by IM Anderton, 1898) he discusses the national epic of Finland and its heroic songs, with a view to solving the problem whether an epic could be composed by the interweaving of such national songs.

Finnish paganism

Many of these myths were later written down in the 19th century as the Kalevala, which was created to be a national epic of Finland by Elias Lönnrot.

Loituma

Lyrics come from many sources, two main traditional sources are the Kalevala, the national epic of Finland, and the Kanteletar.

Oskar Kallis

He was particularly influenced by the Finnish painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela, he devoted himself especially in his short career to the illustration the Estonian national epic Kalevipoeg, creating about 40 works.

Symphonische Dichtungen aus Persien

Hossein Dehlavi – Suite of Bijan & Manijeh (Based on National Epic of Persia Ferdowsi's 'Shahnameh')

Tartu Cathedral

These include among others: Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876), Tartu's greatest natural scientist; Kristjan Jaak Peterson (1801–1822), the first Estonian poet; Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov (1810–1881), the great Russian doctor; and Friedrich Robert Faehlmann (1798–1850), the initiator of the Estonian national epic, the Kalevipoeg.

Tellu Turkka

During her work with Hedningarna, she developed a strong interest in the ancient Finnish runo-songs, which compose the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala.

Ur jordens djup

Aside from this, the lyrical concept for this album was based on Nordic myths, the Kalevala (the Finnish national epic), history and stories of Jämsen's own creation.