Lauluja ja ballaadeja [Finnish]

By Aino Kallas

Love speaks here through songs of desire, rejection and hope, while the natural world answers in flowers, rain, fire and moonlight. Intimate lyric poems stand beside original and translated ballads, moving between youthful dreams and the knowledge of mortality. Singers, abandoned women, children and pilgrims inhabit cottages, forests, shores and wilderness landscapes where everyday existence repeatedly meets an idealised or imagined realm. A five-part historical ballad sequence brings private devotion into conflict with royal, ecclesiastical and political power. The love between King Edvi and Elgiiva unfolds amid the pressures of court and council, extending from royal surroundings to Glastonbury. Rather than separating personal feeling from public struggle, the sequence places them in the same dramatic frame, using the ballad form to hold love, authority and faith in charged proximity. Elsewhere, folklore and religious imagery widen the collection's emotional and imaginative range. Supernatural beings appear alongside young lovers and solitary figures; spring, sea, mountains and forests reflect recurring concerns with longing, loss and renewal. Translated Scandinavian and German ballads add further voices to a poetry collection shaped by both intimate utterance and narrative song, while the shifts between domestic spaces, pilgrimage landscapes and historical drama create a varied meditation on human hopes and limits. This book was out of print for decades and is now republished by Alpha Editions. It has been restored for today's and future generations. This edition is not just a reprint - it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Finnish
• ISBN: 9377787637
• ISBN13: 9789377787639
• Release Date: January 2027
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 36 Pages
• Weight: 0.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"