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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Vinony's link graph records 113 inbound references to Lemminkäinen, and connects out to Tapio, Louhi and Baltic Finnic paganism.
It sits within the topics Characters in the Kalevala, Fictional heroes and Finnish mythology.
Vinony links it to 18 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Part of
- Finnish mythology
- Gender
- male
- Image
- Gallen Kallela Lemminkainens Mother.jpg
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- Kalevala
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Encyclopedic overview
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.