Finnish Kalevala Rune song & Finland's coastline - Raudan synty (Veera Voima)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 เม.ย. 2014
- Beautiful Finland's seaside from a German documentary about the Baltic coasts and a rendition of the story about the origin of iron from Kalevala.
Veera Voima is a Finnish folk singer who specializes in rune singing. Her project "Myths of Making" is based on the birth myths of Kalevala. This is a short version of her song "Raudan Synty" (The Origin of Iron): I've taken most of the instrumental part out because I just wanted to listen to the calm singer's voice, you can hear the full song at the singer's official web page: www.veeravoima.net/page1.htm
Thanks to the Old Man Moon for translating it for me XD
TRANSLATION OF THE LYRICS:
Yes I know the birth of iron
I understand the origin of steel
Water is the oldest of brothers
Iron is the youngest of brothers
Here with us the nights come alone
Alone the dawn comes
Alone is born the Maiden of Death
Maiden of Death the Mother of Earth
Alone is born, alone grows
Alone is born, alone grows
At the vast open marshes
swinging in quagmire pendulum
Laid asleep in grass so good
Earth's girl low maiden
Laid asleep in grass so good
on top of a beautiful heath
forgot her bosom open
forgot her bosom open
and spilled to the ground her milk
thus trickled the white liquid
From bosom so ample
From nipples of the maiden
Where she exuded the black milk
there was the origin of soft iron
Where she oozed the white milk
there was the origin of steel
Where she seeped the red milk
there was the origin pig iron
Wolf ran along the marshes
The bear roamed the isthmus
The marshes rose beneath the wolf
The isthmus at the paws of the bear
There arose the iron
There grew the steel
at the footsteps of the wolf
by the paws of a bear
Will not born iron
without fiery fire
and will not become tough
without immersing into water
Water is the oldest of brothers
Iron is the youngest of brothers
LYRICS:
kyllä tieän rauan synnyn
arvoan alun teräksen
se on vanhin veljeksiä
rauta nuorin veljeksiä
yksin meillä yöt tulevat
yksin päivät valkiavat
yksin syntyy tuonen tyttö
tuonen tyttö maan emonen
yksin syntyy yksin kasvaa
yksin syntyy yksin kasvaa
suon avoilla maan navoilla
heilurilla hettehellä
nukkuipa nurmelle hyvälle
maan tyttö matala neiti
nukkuipa nurmelle hyvälle
ja kanervalle kaunihille
auki rintansa unohti
auki rintansa unohti
ja lypsi maahan maitoansa
niin valutti valkiaista
utareista uhkuvista
nänneistä nimettömistä
Se kun lypsi mustan maion
siitä saatiin melto rauta
ja kun valkein valutti
siitä tehtihin teräkset
sekun puikutti punasen
siitä saatiin räkyrauta
susi juoksi suota myöten
karhu kannasta samosi
suo nousi suen jälessä
kannas karhun kämmenille
siihen nousi rauta ruoste
ja kasvoi teräs karanko
suen sorkkien sijoille
karhun kämmenen perille
eipä synny rauta raukka
ilman tuimakkaa tuletta
eikä kasva karkiaksi
ilman veessä kastamatta
vesi on vanhin veljeksiä
rauta nuorin veljeksiä - เพลง
Thank you for uploading, I am thankful for my whole heart. Thank you for giving us an English translation. Stay well, you are a meaningful and beautiful human being.
For anyone of you that have not visited Finland, please come, but take a tent and own car and leave Helsinki. Do not go for major attractions like Levi, Helsinki, Turku. They are great places to visit but spend just a few days each. Don't believe that you have seen Finland if you stop by with a cruise where you spend a few days and go see TOP10 Helsinki stuff, like a lot of people do.
The country is about forests, swamps, lakes, and every beings connection to them. You will have hard time finding people who will not know woods, enjoy a fire on a cold night under stars. Finnish people have lived on the lands since the last ice age, and you can tell from us.
Please visit us, we would love to have you enjoy the beauty of our land while it's still there!
BR,
Finn living outside home.
Also sending a lot of love to Eesti, truly our brotherly tribe. Beautiful people, beautiful language, beautiful country. Sa oled nii ilus.
My ancestors trace back, its on my bucket list
@@PeaceKukkisUsually only Finn's think like that, Estonia, beautiful country in many ways, sad history tho! *Rising glass of wine* ...Better future for all of us! ✌️ & 💕
Great add for our beautiful country! 👍 Everyone, welcome to Finland, try behave better than most of us, it's REALLY not hard at all! 😆
Eesti regilaul (mis ju teoreetiliselt ongi sama asi, mis ruunilaul) on nii sarnane. Finnish and Estonian rune songs are so similar! I feel like I've heard one that is almost identical to this one in Estonian. Beautiful!
Understood the first part perfectly, Finnish and Estonian really are similar, I was in Tallin some years ago and found myself understanding the language fairly well, it's not like I've ever even studied the language.
Well we are from the same tree
If you are interested in Finnish songs, I strongly recommend you to listen to this one as well... :)
th-cam.com/video/vRp9EVrV77I/w-d-xo.html
i feel like saarlased (saaremaal) have more finnishness in em then the mainlander estonains
Makes sense, it tells the origin of iron as humanity discovered it, meteorite iron, lake iron and so on.
If you are interested in Finnish songs, I strongly recommend you to listen to this one as well... :)
th-cam.com/video/vRp9EVrV77I/w-d-xo.html
i wish i knew finnish, sounds very fascinating, im interested in oral history and reaching far far back
Kiitos.
If you are interested in Finnish songs, I strongly recommend you to listen to this one as well... :)
th-cam.com/video/vRp9EVrV77I/w-d-xo.html
The birth of Iron - Great way to tell the tale.Love how your voice carries.
Kaunis biisi, kiitos paljon :)
Aivan mahtavaa! ❤
Magic ! Goosebump ! Wow !
Thank you so much....
Haunting voice
yeah.. very scary voice
Not really
I am from Gondor !
Kaunis❤👏🌹
Tosi kaunista kiitoksia tästä rakastan suomalaisuutta.
Это песнь моих предков.
Tervitused Eestist, eriti ilus ja meeli ülendav lugu mis on võimeline puudutama iga inimlapse hingesügavusi.
nice..cool and calm.. i dont know whether its a song or prayers... but anyway love the voice
+Silent Killer I guess, originally it must have been both: a sung prayer meant to put one into a trance-like meditative mood with its repetitive intonation.
+Ebne Al An interesting note about the relation between "praying" and Finnish folk poems: it was a common belief of ancient Finns that if you knew the origin of something you had power over it. So many of the poems that describe the birth or creation of something were sung when an affliction related to them had to be diverted. The birth of iron poem which is sung in this video was sung when someone had been cut or otherwise injured by iron or steel instruments.
+Baltic folk Thanks....a lot
+McAnkkuli thanks....though i am having problem to pronouncing the words correctly anyway i can't stop humming it...such a comfortable piece....BTW it seems like iron played an important role in here...is iron connected with something ritual to Finns?
+Ebne Al I don't know how it compares to other cultures, but for ancient Finns up to 1800s, iron and steel were very powerful things. There were concepts about "tämänpuoleinen" (of this world, on this side),"tuonpuoleinen" (otherwordly, on the other side) and "väki" (essence, power), many things were believed to have these properties and they were used to acchieve different things, and iron and steel were amongst the strongest and multipurpose because of the huge amount of "väki" in them (these concepts become a bit muddled because of their long history, generally "väki" was the manifestation of "tuonpuoleinen", but it could be used to cause things that are "tämänpuoleinen" and "tuonpuoleinen"). Some say because they were such revolutionary materials for those people. An iron nail over the door would keep the dead from coming in (general negating of other wordly things), one type of spirit animal for a shaman could've been described as a Dog with Iron Fur (iron colored), when the cows were let loose on the fields the person who owned them walked around each cow 3 times with 3 iron sickles in their hand and then buried the sickles by the barn to ensure the cows would come back (the ritual involved more things but this was the part with iron).
Riddle Of Steel ;)
Birth of Iron
@Sami Sund Only gave the actual translation - not touching any intertextuality. Not going alng or against what he said. Just that people wouldn't think that Raudan synty is literally trnslated as the Riddle of Steel. Simple as that :)
I know that Conan spoke to his god Crom (funny name - maybe they had Yron, Goald and Cilver too :) ). But I'm not such a Conan, nor the Governator, fan that I would know all the wisdom of Conan - I'll admit, guilty.
I don't get much from it since I was in my teens. Big man swinging a massive (slow) sword, sme people run around half naked. Bet the ladies had the bikini armors that magnetically pull the arrows and blades to them, not to the flesh. Fun to look, not to wear I bet. Oh, and Arnie - uhm Conan - KO'd a camel.
I don't think about it between the times it's airing in TV :) I last watched the film about 10 years ago. or 7 or 13. Before that it was maybe early 90's.
Beautiful. Is This an invocation of Voimamoumen?
This is a short version of her song "Raudan Synty" (The Origin of Iron)
This is not ancient singing, this is pop singing))
You are wrong.
You are wrong.
Lord of the Rings
sucks
Why does everybody think so when they hear finnish folk music u shoud feel the life In forests and lakes.
The instrument sounds like an African thumb piano.
It may very well be that, the song is traditionally Finnish but the arrangement has a Neofolk vibe
Its called kantele and its beautiful its like a laid back harp
haha nänni haha
kyllä, oraalinen sana
Kalevala not only finnish, it is karelian-finnish. More of runes was collect in russian Karelia.
Karelians are Finnish and the poems all originate in western Finland
@@finnicpatriot6399 Karelians are not Finns. Yes, we are all Finno-Ugric. But the Finns and we (iam karelian) are different people with different cultures, despite the fact that in eastern Finland many indigenous Finns have Karelian-Izhorian roots. And the runes for Kalevala were mainly recorded in eastern Karelia, i.e. in Russian.
@@kainptz Karelians are Finns just as Savonians and Tavastians are Finns. Finns doesn't refer to the specific tribe Finns Proper / Suomalaiset any more. It refers to all of them. By your logic, I am not a Finn as I am mostly Tavastian, Karelian and Savonian.
@@finnicpatriot6399 In this regard, I agree. Similar to yours, northern Russians are also Vod, Izhora, eesti, latgals, Novgorod people, Krivichi, Chud, Veps and Karelians mostly. But these are the ones from which the Finnish people were formed. But the Karelians developed outside the Finnish ethnic group, along their cultural path for many centuries. So yes, Finns have Karelian roots, but Karelians don't have Finns. Not everywhere. We still have a different culture. Our people have long since dispersed. For example, the Karelians of Lake Onega practically did not mix with the Finns. We mainly had connections with the Novgorodians and Vepsians, then with the newcomers Merya and Vladimir-Suzdal.
Before russia and sweden made their borders and brought religion we were all finns
Beautiful vocals but ruined by banging around on a trash can
This is about the making of iron so