#Saarepiiga (Saarepiiga)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Laagna
In common parlance #Saaremaa or island girl: #piga is a dated term for girl, (serving-)maid in #Swedish, although this one was probably the #IsleMaiden that #Kalevipoeg, ever the gentleman, frightened into drowning herself in Canto IV.
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#Kurni (Kurn)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Rahumäe
#Game involving six wooden pins to be knocked down by a #cudgel, more often or accurately the pin itself. Played by #Kalevipoeg as a child. #Russian game of #Gorodki, #Городки, lit.: ‘townlets’ . Part of a mini game-name area. See #Mängu.
#Leisure #VabaAeg
#Siili (Siil) #Asum
#Tallinn #Mustamäe #Siili
#Hedgehog. The hedgehog has enjoyed modest success in Estonian martial arts consultancy for their rather obvious observation that slicing rather than thwacking movements are more effective with flat weapons (cf. #Kalevipoeg, Canto XII).
#Animals #Loomad
#Veeriku (Veerik)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Kose
1) Roller, something that rolls; 2) Edging, binding of a (traditional) skirt; or 3) if you believe #Kreutzwald, a blood blister (from #vere, blood) that #Kalevipoeg got between the toes from dancing too much.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Varraku (Varrak)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Laagna #Tondiraba
1) Character from the #Kalevipoeg: the #Lappish sage who agrees to take Kalevipoeg to the end of the world. 2) The #Viking traders, pirates, mercenaries (to 11th/13th C #Kievan and #Novgorodian princes among others), known mainly as body-
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#Sulevi (Sulev)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Kivimäe
Short for #Sulevipoeg, Sulev’s son. According to #Kreutzwald, one of the 3 cousins and fighting companions of the epic hero #Kalevipoeg (along with #Alevi and #Olevi, see #Kalevipoja) or possibly a rhyming variant of #Kalev’s name. Note: if Kalev can
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collected by himself or other folklorists such as #KristfridGanander (Cristfried?) (1741-90), include 12 sons of #Kaleva, of whom #Väinämöinen, #Ilmarinen and #Hiisi. Another son is suggested by #Kullervo, sometimes known as #Kalevanpoika (cf. #Estonia’s #Kalevipoeg), tragic
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his ministering minstrels. The epic is a mixed bag of approximately-connected stories sharing several features with, and lending to the superficial structure of, #Estonia’s #Kalevipoeg, and ending with an interesting form of #VirginBirth where the #heroine – plain old (or rather young)
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#Olevimägi). Part of a #Kalevipoeg street-name group. See also #Sulevi. There is another Kalevipoeg-themed street group in #Kalamaja, see #Kalevi or #Linda.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#NationalIcons #RahvuslikudIkoonid
#MythsAndLegends #MüüdidJaLegendid
#Literature #Kirjandus
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#Olevi (Olev)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Kivimäe
Short for #Olevipoeg, Olev’s son. According to #Kreutzwald F.R., cousin and fighting companion of the epic hero #Kalevipoeg (Kalev’s son, see #Kalevipoja), or, possibly, rhyming variant of #Kalev’s name (but see #Oleviste and
#Mythology #Mütoloogia
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Köleri.
View along Köleri, Tallinn, in the direction of Poska.
Rear or side view of an old wooden house in Köleri, Tallinn.
Elegant ironword of a front-door porch in Köleri, Tallinn.
#Köleri J. (Johann Köler, 1826-1899)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kadriorg
Painter, aka Ivan Petrovich #Köler-Viliandi, worked mainly in #StPetersburg. Portraitist to the #Russian imperial family, noted for his 1864 "Fr. R. Kreutzwaldi portree" (or Friedrich Reinhold #Kreutzwald reading “The #Kalevipoeg”
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#Faehlmanni F.R. (Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, 1798-1850)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Raua #Kadriorg
Founder of the ‘#LearnedEstonianSociety’ and originator of the #Kalevipoeg idea, converting a rather malevolent giant of #Estonian #folklore into a king and
#NotableEstonians #MärkimisväärsedEestlased
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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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#Olevi (Olev)
Short for Olevipoeg, Olev’s son. According to #Kreutzwald F.R., cousin and fighting companion of the epic hero #Kalevipoeg, Kalev’s son, or, possibly, rhyming variant of Kalev’s name (but see #Oleviste and #Olevimägi). Part of a Kalevipoeg street-name group. See also #Sulevi.
#Tallinn
Street formerly known as #Militärstraße (1913) or Военная ул. (1907), both meaning military, then #Sõja, war, till 1951. But also parallel to #Linda and hence another #Kalevipoeg character. Salme was a hen who incubated the grouse’s egg from which her ‘sister’ Linda hatched,
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#Linda (Linda)
Linda, wife of #Kalev; hence mother of #Kalevipoeg; also daughter of #Taara/#Uku. Having your country’s symbolic matriarch raped by a foreigner speaks volumes about your self-perception. Sigmund would have had you couch it out long ago. Anagram of #Landi. See #Kalevipoja.
#Kalamaja
Fun-fact: face au succès du Kalevala, on a voulu faire de même en Estonie, d’abord en… allemand. Avant de se dire que ce n’est pas bien sérieux et de la faire en estonien. #Kalevipoeg
