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Lot Essay
The tapestry illustrates a poem from the Finnish national epic, Kalevala:
Lenti lintunen Lapista
kokkolintu koillisesta. Ei ole kokko suuren suuri
eikä kokko pienen pieni
yksi siipi vettä viisti
toinen taivasta lakaisi
pursto merta pyyhätteli
nokka luotoja lotaisi
A bird flew out of Lapland
an eagle from the north-east
not a great big eagle, nor
a little tiny eagle:
One wing ruffled the water
and the other swept the sky
its tail skimmed the sea
and its beak clattered on crags.
It flutters, it glides
it looks, it turns around:
it saw old Väinämöinen
on the blue high seas
"Why, man are you in the sea
fellow, among the billows ?"
Kalevala 7:40
Lenti lintunen Lapista
kokkolintu koillisesta. Ei ole kokko suuren suuri
eikä kokko pienen pieni
yksi siipi vettä viisti
toinen taivasta lakaisi
pursto merta pyyhätteli
nokka luotoja lotaisi
A bird flew out of Lapland
an eagle from the north-east
not a great big eagle, nor
a little tiny eagle:
One wing ruffled the water
and the other swept the sky
its tail skimmed the sea
and its beak clattered on crags.
It flutters, it glides
it looks, it turns around:
it saw old Väinämöinen
on the blue high seas
"Why, man are you in the sea
fellow, among the billows ?"
Kalevala 7:40