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Kanteletar ja opas sen lukemiseen
Kanteletar on Kalevalan ohella suomalaisen kulttuuriperinnön kulmakiviä. Siinä missä Kalevala kertoo myyttisiä tarinoita, Kanteletar välittää tunteita. Näissä kansanrunoissa kuuluu naisen ääni. Kantelettaren lyyriset laulut ja runot antavat kosketuksen vuosisatojen takaiseen arkeen ja juhlaan: iloon, suruun, pelkoon, yksinäisyyteen ja rakkauteen. Yli 650 runon kokonaisuus johdattaa lukijan syvälle arkaaiseen kokemusmaailmaan.
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura julkaisi suurimman osan tämän teoksen lauluista ja runoista ensimmäisen kerran vuonna 1840. Kantelettaren runoista tuli kansallisomaisuutta, jota on julkaistu monenlaisina laitoksina. Nyt nämä klassikkotekstit on tarkistettu ja korjattu alkuperäislaitokseen vertaamalla. Mukana on vaikeiden sanojen selityksiä sekä Lönnrotin toimittamia ennen julkaisemattomia runoja Kantelettaren uutta laitosta varten.
Dosentti Niina Hämäläinen on kirjoittanut teokseen selitysosan, joka avaa runojen merkityksiä ja taustoja nykylukijalle.
Olinpa minä ennen,
olin kuin omenankukka,
olin marja maatessani,
lehti liikkuellessani,
istuessani ihana,
armas astuellessani.
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura julkaisi suurimman osan tämän teoksen lauluista ja runoista ensimmäisen kerran vuonna 1840. Kantelettaren runoista tuli kansallisomaisuutta, jota on julkaistu monenlaisina laitoksina. Nyt nämä klassikkotekstit on tarkistettu ja korjattu alkuperäislaitokseen vertaamalla. Mukana on vaikeiden sanojen selityksiä sekä Lönnrotin toimittamia ennen julkaisemattomia runoja Kantelettaren uutta laitosta varten.
Dosentti Niina Hämäläinen on kirjoittanut teokseen selitysosan, joka avaa runojen merkityksiä ja taustoja nykylukijalle.
Olinpa minä ennen,
olin kuin omenankukka,
olin marja maatessani,
lehti liikkuellessani,
istuessani ihana,
armas astuellessani.
490 pages, Hardcover
Published February 21, 2024
About the author
Elias Lönnrot
108 books71 followersElias Lönnrot was a Finnish philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry. He is best known for composing the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic compiled from national folklore.
Lönnrot was born in Sammatti, in the province of Uusimaa in Finland. He studied medicine at the Academy of Turku. To his misfortune the year he joined was the year of the Great Fire of Turku, burning down half the town – and the University. Lönnrot (and many of the rest of the University) moved to Helsinki, where he graduated in 1832.
He got a job as district doctor of Kajaani in Northern Finland during a time of famine in the district. The famine had prompted the previous doctor to resign, making it possible for a very young doctor to get such a position. Several consecutive years of crop failure resulted in enormous losses of population and livestock; Lönnrot wrote letters to the State departments, asking for food, not medicines. He was the sole doctor for the 4,000 or so people of his district, at a time where doctors were rare and very expensive, and where people did not buy medicines from equally rare and expensive pharmacies, but rather trusted to their village healers and locally available remedies.
His true passion lay in his native Finnish language. He began writing about the early Finnish language in 1827 and began collecting folk tales from the rural people about that time.
Lönnrot went on extended leaves of absence from his doctor's office; he toured the countryside of Finland, Sapmi (Lapland), and nearby portions of Russian Karelia to support his collecting efforts. This led to a series of books: Kantele, 1829–1831 (the kantele is a Finnish traditional instrument); Kalevala, 1835–1836 (possibly Land of Heroes; better known as the "old" Kalevala); Kanteletar, 1840 (the Kantele Maiden); Sananlaskuja, 1842 (Proverbs); an expanded second edition of Kalevala, 1849 (the "new" Kalevala); and Finsk-Svenskt lexikon, 1866–1880 (Finnish-Swedish Dictionary).
Lönnrot was recognised for his part in preserving Finland's oral traditions by appointment to the Chair of Finnish Literature at the University of Helsinki. He died on March 19, 1884 in Sammatti, in the province of Uusimaa.
Lönnrot was born in Sammatti, in the province of Uusimaa in Finland. He studied medicine at the Academy of Turku. To his misfortune the year he joined was the year of the Great Fire of Turku, burning down half the town – and the University. Lönnrot (and many of the rest of the University) moved to Helsinki, where he graduated in 1832.
He got a job as district doctor of Kajaani in Northern Finland during a time of famine in the district. The famine had prompted the previous doctor to resign, making it possible for a very young doctor to get such a position. Several consecutive years of crop failure resulted in enormous losses of population and livestock; Lönnrot wrote letters to the State departments, asking for food, not medicines. He was the sole doctor for the 4,000 or so people of his district, at a time where doctors were rare and very expensive, and where people did not buy medicines from equally rare and expensive pharmacies, but rather trusted to their village healers and locally available remedies.
His true passion lay in his native Finnish language. He began writing about the early Finnish language in 1827 and began collecting folk tales from the rural people about that time.
Lönnrot went on extended leaves of absence from his doctor's office; he toured the countryside of Finland, Sapmi (Lapland), and nearby portions of Russian Karelia to support his collecting efforts. This led to a series of books: Kantele, 1829–1831 (the kantele is a Finnish traditional instrument); Kalevala, 1835–1836 (possibly Land of Heroes; better known as the "old" Kalevala); Kanteletar, 1840 (the Kantele Maiden); Sananlaskuja, 1842 (Proverbs); an expanded second edition of Kalevala, 1849 (the "new" Kalevala); and Finsk-Svenskt lexikon, 1866–1880 (Finnish-Swedish Dictionary).
Lönnrot was recognised for his part in preserving Finland's oral traditions by appointment to the Chair of Finnish Literature at the University of Helsinki. He died on March 19, 1884 in Sammatti, in the province of Uusimaa.
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