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  • This will of itself largely justify the making _Kalevala_ synonymous with the present _Finland_, _Pohjola_ with the present Lapland, Karjala with the present _Karjala_ (Anglice, _Karelia_) in South-Eastern Finland, etc.

    Finnish Legends for English Children R. Eivind

  • Karjala does an admirable job of debunking this theory, explaining both why this is unlikely to be a common scenario Santa, anyone? and why, even if the theory were true as to individual works, it would not suggest that society was in any way worse off when consumer preferences shifted from overexposed works.

    Indefinitely Renewable Copyright: Batman versus the Utility Monster Rebecca Tushnet 2005

  • Karjala does an admirable job of debunking this theory, explaining both why this is unlikely to be a common scenario Santa, anyone? and why, even if the theory were true as to individual works, it would not suggest that society was in any way worse off when consumer preferences shifted from overexposed works.

    Archive 2005-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2005

  • And the one in Pohjola was named Untamo, but the one in Karjala was called Kalerwoinen.

    Finnish Legends for English Children R. Eivind

  • Lemminkainen, set off and invited rich and poor, old and young, the deaf, the blind, and the cripples in all Pohjola and Karjala, but did not ask Lemminkainen.

    Finnish Legends for English Children R. Eivind

  • Then there came an aged hero from Karjala, and went up to the ox to kill him with his war-club.

    Finnish Legends for English Children R. Eivind

  • In distant Karjala, a part of Kalevala, was a great ox, the largest in the world.

    Finnish Legends for English Children R. Eivind

  • She made such a great quantity of beer that the springs were emptied and the forests grew small, and such a vast column of smoke went up as filled half of Pohjola and was seen even in distant Karjala and

    Finnish Legends for English Children R. Eivind

  • And ask all the people of Karjala and the ancient Wainamoinen, but be sure thou dost not invite wild Lemminkainen. '

    Finnish Legends for English Children R. Eivind

  • Many ages ago there was a mother who had three sons, and one of them grew up to be a prosperous merchant, but the other two were carried off -- one to distant Pohjola and one to Karjala.

    Finnish Legends for English Children R. Eivind

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