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Year Location Temperature °C (°F) Date 1961 Kemi-Tornio Airport: 30.8 °C (87.4 °F) July 14 1962 Kronoby: 26.0 °C (78.8 °F) June 20 1963 Utti
The annual average temperature is relatively high in the southwestern part of the country (5.0 to 7.5 °C or 41.0 to 45.5 °F), with quite mild winters and warm summers, and low in the northeastern part of Lapland (Finland) (0 to −4 °C or 32 to 25 °F).
The Kalevala (IPA: [ˈkɑleʋɑlɑ]) is a 19th-century compilation of epic poetry, compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology, [1] telling a story about the Creation of the Earth, describing the controversies and retaliatory voyages between the peoples of the land of Kalevala called Väinölä and the land of Pohjola and their various protagonists and ...
Lauri Untamo, a 49-year-old sales manager from southern Finland, was on holiday in Finnish Lapland with friends when the temperature fell to minus 30 degrees Celsius (-22°F) on New Year's Day.
Post WWII Finland underwent an urbanisation which changed poets' relationships with culture and nature, specifically the forest. [14] Like much of Europe and the western world, 1960's Finland saw an artistic period of challenging old taboo's where its poetry become heavily politicised. [7]
Ahti's story is of a man so eager to fight that he abandons his young wife and sets out on an adventure with his friend Tiera . [2] The original songs in the Ahti cycle have been tentatively dated to the Viking Age because of their references to sea voyages, [ 3 ] but Oinas also sees an adventurous element in both Ahti and Kaukamoinen's tales.
HELSINKI (Reuters) -The 12-year-old boy who shot and killed a fellow sixth-grader and severely injured two others at a school in Finland has explained that he was a target of bullying, and this ...
This is a summary of the cantos of the Kalevala.. The Kalevala is considered the national epic of Finland. [1] It was compiled and edited from the songs of numerous folk singers by Elias Lönnrot [2] while he was a district health officer in eastern Finland, at that time under the governance of Russia as Grand Duchy of Finland.