tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post1675890653258935000..comments2024-03-27T22:28:06.861-06:00Comments on Dispatches From Turtle Island: Finnish Great Winter Myth Partially ValidatedAndrew Oh-Willekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-9409030476995305492020-05-09T12:33:05.402-06:002020-05-09T12:33:05.402-06:00Yes, the Kalevala is a too late compilation unfort...Yes, the Kalevala is a too late compilation unfortunately. As for the sources of the myths we discuss here and whether we can connect them to specific natural disasters, they are open questions, but worth tackling nevertheless.Onur Dincerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05041378853428912894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-45932864121752464982020-05-09T09:41:05.813-06:002020-05-09T09:41:05.813-06:00Perhaps they had cooling-related myth or multiple ...Perhaps they had cooling-related myth or multiple myths more directly related to the event here, but it did not survive and make it into written record, as Saami and Baltic myths of the time didn't. Prose Edda itself isn't a totally comprehensive or accurate collection of Norse mythology, and Kalevala as a 19th century compilation should be viewed as much more fragmented and distorted.Shaikorthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04468485423355664299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-238965796787520362020-05-09T08:34:11.195-06:002020-05-09T08:34:11.195-06:00@Shaikorth
But it is widely thought that Finnic (...@Shaikorth<br /><br />But it is widely thought that Finnic (as opposed to Sami) was already spoken in what is now southern Finland by the beginning of the 1st millennium AD, if not earlier. Onur Dincerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05041378853428912894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-4340155358749413062020-05-09T01:11:40.612-06:002020-05-09T01:11:40.612-06:00The authors here are indeed talking about the poss...The authors here are indeed talking about the possible origin of the Fimbulwinter myth, this cooling event must have affected areas outside the Norse-inhabited territory so it would be visible in the Levanluhta region. During this era these latitudes in Finland as well as in Scandinavia were populated by the Sámi (whose ancient mythology was never put in written record) and the Norse, not Finns. Kalevala sun-stealing myth has been often connected to another event altogether, the Kaali meteorite in Estonia.<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaali_craterShaikorthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04468485423355664299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-79254093078705638212020-05-05T10:56:00.773-06:002020-05-05T10:56:00.773-06:00Fimbulwinter is a Norse myth, nothing to do with F...Fimbulwinter is a Norse myth, nothing to do with Finnish mythology. I think the author of the article in your last link has in mind the myth of the stealing of the Sun, the Moon and fire by Louhi found in the Kalevala when he mentions the Kalevala. Yes, that myth can also be connected to the Late Antique Little Ice Age, but it has no discernible relationship to the Fimbulwinter myth, the two myths do not seem to share a common source or to have affected each other, they are so different. And in the Kalevala and Finnish mythology there is no other myth that even remotely resembles the Fimbulwinter myth.Onur Dincerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05041378853428912894noreply@blogger.com