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12 June 2020 23:42![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
haptalaonAlso, this is beautiful. Satisfyingly, but not surprisingly, it is a fit for many of the things I've already put together (because Tolkien is such an influence on me that it's no longer always clear when I'm reflecting something he planted in me)
Additionally, the translation I'm reading is to the same metre as the Song of Hiawatha, and that's important because Mike Oldfield's setting of Hiawatha is one of the loveliest things I know, and it means that I can sing this too.
Additionally, the translation I'm reading is to the same metre as the Song of Hiawatha, and that's important because Mike Oldfield's setting of Hiawatha is one of the loveliest things I know, and it means that I can sing this too.
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Date: 13 June 2020 04:51 (UTC)Go ahead, sing the Kalevala. It was originally meant to be sung anyway. :D Rune singers were a big thing in Finland of old.
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Date: 15 June 2020 00:37 (UTC)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIXak7HH5ds
Ignore the beginning bit, and then relax into that delightful lilting beat.