Lemminkäinen
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thumb|right|''Lemminkäinen's Mother, an 1897 painting by [[Akseli Gallen-Kallela: She is shown having just gathered the broken body of her son from the dark river of Tuonela.]] Lemminkäinen () or Lemminki () is a prominent figure in Finnish mythology. He also appears in Karelian and Estonian folk poetry. He is one of the heroes of the Kalevala'', where his character is a composite of several separate heroes of oral poetry. He is usually depicted as young and good-looking, with wavy red hair.
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- Finnish mythology
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- male
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- Gallen Kallela Lemminkainens Mother.jpg
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- Kalevala
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18 sectionsContents
- Name
- In runic songs
- Song of Lemminkäinen
- Death of Lemminkäinen
- Song of Vipunen
- Disease of Osmi
- Song of Kaukamoinen
- Ahti Saarelainen
- Other songs
- Interpretations
- Epithets
- In the ''Kalevala''
- Lemminkäinen in arts
- Lemminkäinen in films
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- Sources
thumb|right|''Lemminkäinen's Mother, an 1897 painting by [[Akseli Gallen-Kallela: She is shown having just gathered the broken body of her son from the dark river of Tuonela.]] Lemminkäinen () or Lemminki () is a prominent figure in Finnish mythology. He also appears in Karelian and Estonian folk poetry. He is one of the heroes of the Kalevala'', where his character is a composite of several separate heroes of oral poetry. He is usually depicted as young and good-looking, with wavy red hair.
The original, mythological Lemminkäinen is a shamanistic figure. In the Kalevala, he has been blended together with epic war-heroes Kaukomieli/Kaukamoinen and Ahti Saarelainen.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lemminkäinen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.