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Quotation from Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot (compiler)
“Wept the young, and wept the aged, Wept the mothers, wept the daughters Wept the warriors and heroes At the music of his playing,”
Kalevala, Rune XLI, trans. John Martin Crawford
Väinämöinen plays the new harp for three days and moves every listener, and himself, to tears.
Citation: "Wept the young, and wept the aged, Wept the mothers, wept the daughters Wept the warriors and heroes At the music of his playing," — Elias Lönnrot (compiler), Kalevala, Rune XLI, trans. John Martin Crawford. (id kalevala-q6)
Portrait: The Defence of the Sampo, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Public domain.
