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| 2 | ** ''Literature/TheKalevala'''s octosyllables are splendid. |
| 3 | ** One more wrinkle about the rhythm: the oral tradition that Lönnrot was drawing from, the last two syllables of each line are sung for about twice as as long as the others. The effect -- which Sibelius preserves in his crowningly awesome ''Kullervo'' -- is quite markedly different from the Longfellow version. |
| 4 | * BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The snakes buried in the mountain -- drinking beer. This made Väinämöinen so angry that he forbade snakes to drink beer for all eternity. |
| 5 | * DesignatedVillain: Louhi first appears on screen helping out a lost traveler, who turns out to be Väinämöinen. She sets the heroes standard mythological quests for her daughter's hand, and ends up marrying her to the one the daughter actually likes. When her eldest daughter dies, she quite reasonably refuses to marry her second daughter to Ilmarinen, which prompts the heroes try to steal the bride-price. She wakes up and chases them down to get her property back, and when that's unsuccessful, Louhi then continues to fight the war the heroes clearly started through other means. Why is she evil? Because she opposes the heroes. |
| 6 | * IronWoobie: Kullervo, whom the rage almost drives into OmnicidalManiac. |
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