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What about some national costumes Talvi? I'll make a custom one for Estonians with your costumes or something... Just to prove I'm not a troll or anti-estonian.![]()
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Heretik, that´s an awesome signature. Mad skills!![]()
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Karl, please.
Stadin slangi. Only country bumpkins say "Hesa".
@ Talvi, if you're looking for some Baltic Finnish themes, why not use our well-recorded and even internationally known mythology and folk poetry?
Kalevala:
Kalevipoeg:
Another option would be to have pictures from the kinship wars, when feelings of Baltic Finnish kinship inspired thousands of volunteers to take up arms in attempts to liberate the Finnic nations.![]()
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Ya, I didnt know you were in this group so I was pretty surprised.Id prefer you to stop trolling the Eesti section above all though
For some reason I like this:Weve got some mad hats!
I was trying to find something that all the Baltic Finns have... but I dont know. We dont all have Kalevipoeg or Kalevala...
Although I wanted to ask about this pic:
Whats up with it? Our art teacher in high school said that the ones with the hats in the boat are Estonians... or then the one without the hat... anyway are there any Estonians on the pic or our teacher lied just to make us interested?
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I would say we all do have it. Most of the material for the Kalevala was gathered from the Orthodox areas anyway, not from Finland or Estonia, as the zeal of the protestant reformation most likely stifled out the oral traditions in more western areas. This is not to say that folk poetry of the Kalevala metre hasn't been gathered in Finland and Estonia as well.
http://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevala-mõõt
http://dbgw.finlit.fi/skvr/skvr-tietokanta.php
Well, the Kalevala does not mention any modern or indeed accurately determinable ethnonyms, so it seems a bit odd to claim that they were specifically Estonian. However, it is quite possible that all of the kalevalaiset / väinöläiset are Estonians and Western Finns, as some have theorized that Väinölä / land of Kaleva was in Western Finland. The "Väinö/ä"-prefix is a recurring toponym in large parts of Baltic Finnish areas. For example Daugava river is known as Väinäjoki.Although I wanted to ask about this pic:
Whats up with it? Our art teacher in high school said that the ones with the hats in the boat are Estonians... or then the one without the hat... anyway are there any Estonians on the pic or our teacher lied just to make us interested?
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Väinä in Finnish means a deeper and wider section of a river, where the water flows slower compared to the rest of the river. Viena is basically the same word (e.g. Vienan Karjala, Vienanjoki, Vienanmeri). Väinö is a Finnish male name.
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I live in Stadi and use many other Helsinki slang words, even though I hardly speak Swedish proper at all.
Helsinki slang is colloquial Finnish with Swedish, German, Russian, English and even Yiddish superstrata. Speaking it has nothing to do with being a wannabe-Swede.
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