Part of a magico-mythological group. See #Varraku.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Literature #Kirjandus
#MythsAndLegends #MüüdidJaLegendid
#Folklore #Folkloor
#MeToo
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house, the ‘#SutyaginSkyscraper’, built by its eponymous local racketeer. #SovietOccupation renaming (1950-1991) of #Gonsiori.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Literature #Kirjandus
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Street named after a children’s novel about the hero as seen through his son’s eyes, by #AaduHint (born #AdolfEdmundHint, 1910-1989, brother of #JohannesHint, see #Silikaltsiidi): #VessePoeg, Vesse’s Son.
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#History #Ajalugu
#Literature #Kirjandus
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as writing substrate (see #Tohu), #Germanic languages ‘book’ comes from #ProtoGermanic *bōk(ō)-, from *bokiz (beech) and #Italic languages ‘liber’ from #Latin #librum, the inner bark of trees.
#Literature #Kirjandus
#Education #Haridust
#Entertainment #Meelelahutus
#Ethnology #Etnoloogia
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is, I couldn’t say.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Literature #Kirjandus
#MythsAndLegends #MüüdidJaLegendid
#FolkCulture #RahvaKultuur
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and for what reason I cannot imagine, this was the first #Estonian story ever translated into #Finnish.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Literature #Kirjandus
#EstonianWriter #EestiKirjanik
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now a museum devoted to him and #MarieUnder, another previous writer-occupant sadly, and oddly, lacking any street named after her.
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#Literature #Kirjandus
#NationalIcon #RahvuslikudIkoon
#NotableEstonian #MärkimisväärneEestlane
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#RedFlags) on a #CollectiveFarm, where the #bourgeois, imperialist, counter-revolutionary, #kulak villain can be identified by his ownership of... a pot-plant. HL once lived in this street (No.20). #SovietOccupation renaming (1960-1990) of #Ugala.
#Communist #Kommunist
#Literature #Kirjandus
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#Sütiste J. (Juhan Sütiste, 1899-1945)
#Tallinn #Mustamäe
Known as #JohannesSchütz until 1936, a sort of patriotico-anti-fascist ‘kitchen-sink’ poet with socialist leanings and an anti-romantic bent.
#Literature #Kirjandus
#NotableEstonians#MärkimisväärsedEestlased
#EstonianWriters #EestiKirjanikud
#Tõivu (Tõiv)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Ülemiste
#Promise. Since the street creation was decided along with #Tambeti and #Tõrviku, the promise may well refer to something in a book I’ve been promising myself to read: #Tasuja, but still haven’t.
Suggestions, please?
#Literature #Kirjandus
#Majakovski V. (Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1893-1930)
#Historical #Ajalooline
#Georgian-born #Russian #poet, #playwright and #agitpropagandist, committed suicide in 1930. #SovietOccupation renaming of #Kari (1953-1995) and #Sitsi (1953-1990).
#Literature #Kirjandus
#Communism #Kommunism
The street creation being decided along with #Tambeti and #Tõivu, the torch in question may also refer to one I neglected to read about in #Tasuja, a book I also neglected to read.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Literature #Kirjandus
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along with #Tõrviku and #Tõivu.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#History #Ajalugu
#Literature #Kirjandus
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Born in #Metsanuka (corner of, or paddock in or near, the woods), Tartumaa. Best known for his historical novel Ümera jõel (On Ümera River, 1934), depicting the battle of 1210, where Estonians fought and defeated the invading Teutonic knights.
#Literature #Kirjandus
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#Vahuri (Vahur)
#Historical #Ajalooline
Father of #Tambeti, hence the hero #Jaanus’ grandfather, in #Bornhöhe E.’s novel #Tasuja. One of the former names of #Lehola.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Literature #Kirjandus
#Mahtra (Mahtra)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Mustakivi
Fight, quarrel, brawl. Word derived from the peasant insurgency on the Mahtra estate, 60 km from Tallinn, in 1858, about which #Vilde E. wrote in his 1902 historical novel #MahtraSõda (‘The Mahtra war’).
#History #Ajalugu
#Literature #Kirjandus
and even #Flaubert... #SovietOccupation renaming (1963-1995) of #Madala.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Art #Kunst
#Literature #Kirjandus
#How_are_the_mighty_fallen #Kuidas_on_vägevad_langenud
#Tapri (Tapper)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Sõjamäe
Battle-axe. Named for probable weapon used during the #JüriööÜlestõus. See #Nuia.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#MythsAndLegends #MüüdidJaLegendid
#Military #Sõjaline
#Literature #Kirjandus
#Olevimägi). Part of a #Kalevipoeg street-name group. See also #Sulevi. There is another Kalevipoeg-themed street group in #Kalamaja, see #Kalevi or #Linda.
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#NationalIcons #RahvuslikudIkoonid
#MythsAndLegends #MüüdidJaLegendid
#Literature #Kirjandus
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Kungla.
View along Kungla, Tallinn, near the Kopli end.
Three-storey house of early 20th-century design in Kungla, Tallinn.
Wooden doorway with hanging flower baskets in Kungla, Tallinn.
#Kungla (Kungla)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kalamaja
A sort of pseudomythological Estonian Arcady that found its way into 19th C Estonian writers’ minds and books. Believed invented by Kreutzwaldi F.R. and probably Esto-Swedish for place of king(s).
#Literature #Kirjandus
#Mythology #Mütoloogia
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Udu, vihm ja vaikne oht. “Enne koitu” on öine sissevaade maailma, mis variseb kokku veel enne, kui keegi karjuda jõuab.
#eesti #kirjandus #sõda
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name J. Kunderi.
View along Kunderi, Tallinn, from the Pronksi direction alongside Politseiaed.
Drab, six-storey, Soviet-looking block of uncertain occupation (offices or flats?) on Kunderi, Tallinn.
Surprisingly-elegant flag-holder on previous drab building in Kunderi, Tallinn.
#Kunderi J. (Juhan Kunder, 1852-1888)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Torupilli
Writer known mainly for folk tales or fairy tales, e.g. #EestiMuinasjutud (usually translated as Estonian Fairytales).
#EstonianWriters #EestiKirjanikud
#Literature #Kirjandus
#MythsAndLegends #MüüdidJaLegendid
a search in #Kalevipoeg reveals it to be a mythical kingdom whose son and heir comes to press his suit on #Linda but, like his four predecessors, gets taken to the cleaners.
#Literature #Kirjandus
#NationalEpic #Rahvuseepos
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today a cult film or bane of Christmas according to viewpoint, while #Tasuja, The Avenger, deals with #JüriööÜlestõus, the St. George’s Night Uprising, and features #Taara, #Tambeti and #Vahuri.
#Literature #Kirjandus
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#Aspe E. (Elisabeth Aspe, 1860-1927)
Maiden name and alternative pseudonym to E.A., or “Neiu E.A.” (lit ‘maid’, i.e. unmarried), of #ElisabethNieländer, realist writer largely forgotten today, god-daughter to #JannseniJ.V.
#FormerStreets #EndisedTänavad
#Literature #Kirjandus
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(where most hypotheses depend on the meteorite’s definitive dating). Also #poetic name for Tartu: #Taaralinn (Taaratown). Taara was also the name that Oodo, bad guy of #Bornhöhe E.’s #Tasuja, symbolically names his dog. Part of a small #EstonianMythology street-name group.
#Literature #Kirjandus
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chronicling the change from life on the land to life in town in 20th-C #Estonia. His portrait is on the 25-krooni note (for information on Estonian currency, see #Krooni). Clearly, there’s never much money in it for writers...
#Literature #Kirjandus
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