Finnish Legends: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Finnish Legends, credited to R. Eivind, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Finnish Legends by R. Eivind. Read in English by Sonia; Fatima Ansari; Phil Schempf; bananatree; Foon; Farnood; George Allen One dark winter's day in the north of Finland, Father Mikko seeks shelter in an isolated cabin till a storm abates. After dinner the family sit around the fire, and the daughter asks him to tell them "all the stories he had ever heard from the very beginning of the world all the way down", and so the book begins. In the words of the author "If this little volume may in any degree awake some interest in the Finnish people its author will be amply satisfied, and its end will have been attained." ( Annise)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Finnish Legends
• Author credits: R. Eivind
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 38
• Listed recording duration: 4:35:04

Catalogue topics

• Finland
• kalvela
• lapland

Opening tracks: first 24 of 38

1. 01 - Father Mikko — 9:22
2. 02 - The World's Creation and the Birth of Wainamoinen — 4:22
3. 03 - The Planting of Trees — 5:42
4. 04 - Wainamoinen and Youkahainen — 7:51
5. 05 - Aino's Fate — 10:43
6. 06 - Wainamoinen's Search for Aino — 4:49
7. 07 - Wainamoinen's Unlucky Journey — 5:35
8. 08 - Wainamoinen's Rescue — 6:35
9. 09 - The Rainbow Maiden — 11:57
10. 10 - Ilmarinen Forges the Sampo — 10:43
11. 11 - Lemminkainen and Kyllikki — 6:46
12. 12 - Kyllikki's Broken Vow — 5:58
13. 13 - Lemminkainen's Second Wooing — 5:00
14. 14 - Lemminkainen's Death — 4:18
15. 15 - Lemminkainen's Restoration — 11:30
16. 16 - Wainamoinen's Boat-Building — 11:02
17. 17 - Wainamoinen Finds the Lost Words — 9:27
18. 18 - The Rival Suitors — 8:31
19. 19 - Ilmarinen's Wooing — 7:00
20. 20 - The Brewing of Beer — 9:06
21. 21 - Ilmarinen's Wedding Feast — 6:31
22. 22 - The Origon of the Serpent — 7:43
23. 23 - The Unwelcome Guest — 5:19
24. 24 - The Isle of Refuge — 8:24

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