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Lake Keitele Oil on canvas, 53 x 66 cm, by Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1905 The National Gallery, London |
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| The waters of Lake Keitele in Finland, with a zigzag pattern, recalling the trailing formation left by Väinämöinen’s boat, the heroic figure and sage-poet from the Finnish epic poem Kalevala. For nineteenth-century Finnish nationalists, this story was embraced as a core national legend, giving this depiction symbolic weight beyond its natural beauty. |
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