Vanemuine (god)

Vanemuine is an important figure of the Estonian mythology. He is the kunstmythologische main symbol of music and song.

Origin

The God Vanemuine is a product of the national romantic art mythology of the 19th century. It was popularized by the Estonian folklorists and linguists Robert Friedrich and Friedrich Reinhold Kreutz Faehlmann forest of older texts. Especially designed by the Estonian national epic of two Kalevipoeg he was known. The Anfangsvers of the epic, " Lend me the harp, Vanemuine ", each Estonians is common.

Vanemuine similar to Väinämöinen in the Finnish mythology. Väinämöinen was Estonian scholars probably by Garlieb Merkel's work The ancient Livonia (1798 ) became known. Kristjan Jaak Peterson The poet mentioned that there is evidence of a singer God grant in the Estonian folk poetry, whose name would, however, not known, but could correspond Väinämöinen. 1822 Johann Heinrich grabbed Rosenplänter in the journal Contributions to the more exact Kentniss the ehstnischen language this idea, which is also represented by Kristfrid Ganander in his Mythologia Fennica.

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