Celebration of the Finnish Kalevala day in the twin ports

On February 23, an annual celebration of Finnish culture occurred in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of our Errter. The celebration is called Kalevala Day. A national holiday in Finland, which celebrates the Finnish language, culture and identity.

The day will be celebrated in Finland on February 28th, but many people in Northland celebrate it here because they ancestors and proudly find their roots. The Kalevala Day celebrates a national epic called Kalevala, a folk epic of the Finnish people.

Family and friends, Finnish and non-Finnish appreciate the culture because many baked goods fill the room. The women from Kalevala organize the event every year. When the group started at the end of the 19th century when many immigrants from Finland were in America.

The Kalevala day is filled with several events for celebrating the Kalevala. This event had Steve Sokola, the one-man band, Preform. They had a speech, a speech, as well as local members told stories about the Kalevala and the Finnish culture. All of these celebrations for the Kalevala comes that this epic was first recorded that the Finnish language was recorded.

It is from the time of the Kalabala that was actually a song. One of the few surviving stories that Runo singers handed over from one generation to another. That was until the middle of the 19th century when a doctor went through the landscape and wrote what people signed.

Now the celebration continues and shares the training. “” And so we continue with this training more than a hundred years later, “said Lisa Fitzpatrick.” Clarify the people about this wonderful Kalevala epic, which JRR Tolkien influenced in his writings and Longfellow, wrote the Walsang of Hiawatha. “

Dan Reed used the translation by Eno Freeberg, a man who became blind and was known for his English translation to share the national epic from Finland.

The event takes place every year in February in Northland in February, when the ladies of Kalevala invite everyone to come, to come and to join the celebration.