127-Finnish Mythology: The Boy who Lived

Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser

Fiction, History, Arts, Books

4.8 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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A story from the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, about revenge, letting go, and moving on. Also why you shouldn't mess with babies that can whisper threats at three months old and survive way more things than you could. -- Sponsors: Check out http://www.linkedin.com/myths for $50 off your first job posting. Post your job where millions of professionals go weekly. HOMECOMING! It's on Amazon Prime now. Check it out. Don't forget to catch season 2 of Lore on Amazon Prime on October 19th! -- Music: "Alphabet Soup" by Podington Bear "Thin Passage" by Blue Dot Sessions "Readers do you Read?" by Chris Zabriskie "Vik Fenceta Lan" by Blue Dot Sessions "Another Version of You" by Chris Zabriskie "Vik Fenceta" by Blue Dot Sessions "NirvanaVEVO" by Chris Zabriskie

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0:00.0	There's just like content morning this week.
0:02.3	It's kind of violent.
0:04.2	More so just weird, though it does get kind of dark.
0:06.7	Check out the post on mythpodcast.com for more info.
0:09.8	This week, on Miss Simligens, we'll be digging into Finnish mythology.
0:13.7	And we'll see why the last thing you want to give a boy with rage issues and no parental
0:17.2	supervision is unlimited magical powers.
0:20.4	The creature this week is a vicious basket that wants to eat your brain.
0:24.3	The good news, though, it's about as smart as a basket.
0:33.3	This is Myths and Legends, episode 127, The Boy Who Lived.
0:41.6	This is a podcast where I adapt stories from mythology and folklore.
0:45.0	Some are incredibly popular stories you think you know, but with surprising origins.
0:49.4	Others are stories that might be new to you, but are definitely worth a listen.
0:53.4	Today's story is from the Kalevala.
0:55.3	A Finnish epic poem I've had a request to cover basically since the beginning of this
0:59.2	podcast.
1:00.2	It's the National Epic of Finland, put down a paper in 1835 by Finnish writer LAS Londrot.
1:06.6	Though the stories were sourced from Finnish oral folklore mythology, he traveled all
1:10.0	around Finland for 15 years, compiling disparate poems into one massive work.
1:15.0	The people would sing the poems, pass down to them for generations, and he would record
1:18.5	and compile them.
1:19.7	Although the work is sourced from and set in Nordic countries, it's unlike anything we've
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