Mehiläinen ( Finnish for " bee ") is a concern for social and healthcare services for both public and private customers, active in Finland , Sweden , Germany and Estonia . The company's largest owner is CVC Capital Partners .
75-550: The hospital limited company Mehiläinen was founded in Helsinki in 1909 as a small private hospital. It was founded by four Finnish-speaking doctors, Reguel Löfqvist, Akseli Koskimies, Walter Sipilä and K. F. Hirvisalo. The company was named after the mythical bee Mehiläinen in the national epic Kalevala , who healed Lemminkäinen as he was dying. The company was first located on the Huvilankatu street. The company bought two lots from
150-595: A diabetic can enter their own weight and sugar values into the service, after which a care team can discuss the situation with them by a telephone call or communication through the application. In 2006 the Swedish fund capital company 3i became Mehiläinen's main owner and Mehiläinen became part of the Swedish Ambea concern. The concern took an internal loan for the deal, which the Finnish daughter company could then pay off paying
225-453: A doctor; a 10-day jaunt into Viena. This trip resulted in 49 poems and almost 3,000 new lines of verse. It was during this trip that Lönnrot formulated the idea that the poems might represent a wider continuity, when poem entities were performed to him along with comments in normal speech connecting them. On the fifth field trip, Lönnrot met Arhippa Perttunen who, over two days of continuous recitation, provided him with some 4,000 verses for
300-460: A duo, each person singing alternative verses or groups of verses. This method of performance is called an antiphonic performance, it is a kind of "singing match". Despite the vast geographical distance and customary spheres separating individual singers, the folk poetry the Kalevala is based on was always sung in the same metre . The Kalevala ' s metre is a form of trochaic tetrameter that
375-450: A grade of -2 on a scale from -11 to +11. According to the report, Mehiläinen did not have an aggressive shareholder loan plan, but during the years before the report, it had been undercapitalised with loans taken from funds institutions, whose interests decrease the taxable income in Finland and the self-sufficiency grade of the company was significantly lower than the average in the business. In
450-539: A line settled usually into seven syllables of English, often less, occasionally more. I eventually arrived at seven, five and nine syllables respectively, using the impair (odd number) as a formal device and letting the stresses fall where they would." Most recently, Finnish/Canadian author and translator Kaarina Brooks translated into English the complete runic versions of Old Kalevala 1835 (Wisteria Publications 2020) and Kalevala (Wisteria Publications 2021). These works, unlike some previous versions, faithfully follow
525-689: A logical plot. Similarly, as was normal in the preliterate conventions of oral poetry —according to the testimony of Arhippa Perttunen—traditional bards in his father's days would always vary the language of songs from performance to performance when reciting from their repertoire. The Finnish historian Väinö Kaukonen suggests that 3% of the Kalevala 's lines are Lönnrot's own composition, 14% are Lönnrot compositions from variants, 50% are verses which Lönnrot kept mostly unchanged except for some minor alterations, and 33% are original unedited oral poetry. The first version of Lönnrot's compilation
600-524: A million pages of verse have been collected and archived by the Finnish Literature Society and other collectors in what are now Estonia and Russia's Republic of Karelia . The publication Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot ( Ancient Poems of the Finns ) published 33 volumes containing 85,000 items of poetry over a period of 40 years. They have archived 65,000 items of poetry that remain unpublished. By
675-408: A second version, the Kalevala . This New Kalevala , published in 1849, contains fifty poems, with a number of plot differences compared with the first version, and is the standard text of the Kalevala read and translated to this day. (Published as: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran Toimituksia. 14 Osa. KALEVALA.) The word Kalevala rarely appears in the original folk songs. The first appearance of
750-635: A service based on OmaMehiläinen and the digital clinic also abroad, for example in Greece and Italy . Healthcare companies and hospital chains can use the BeeHealthy service to provide digital appointment reservation, fulfilment of preliminary information forms, healthcare access, remote appointments, various kinds of remote coaching and follow-ups and access to one's own medical information such as laboratory test results. The application can be connected to mobile healthcare applications such as Apple Health . Foe example
825-600: A tailor, and Ulrika Lönnrot; he was born in the village of Sammatti , Uusimaa . At the age of 21, he entered the Imperial Academy of Turku and obtained a master's degree in 1826. His thesis was entitled De Vainamoine priscorum fennorum numine ( Väinämöinen, a Divinity of the Ancient Finns ). The monograph 's second volume was destroyed in the Great Fire of Turku the same year. In the spring of 1828, he set out with
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#1733094380281900-455: A tax responsibility document about the social and healthcare business, where Mehiläinen was ranked worst of the six healthcare companies mentioned in the document. Of the companies investigated, it got the most points for its public tax strategy, while its points were decreased by its loan strategy to decrease its taxable income, the ongoing legal process and that part of its business income had been converted into capital income. Mehiläinen received
975-431: A ten-percent share of Mehiläinen. Mehiläinen had a revenue of over 165 million euro, almost 30 percent more than in the previous year. In May 2018 the funds controlled by Triton and KKR sold Mehiläinen to LähiTapiola, Varma , Ilmarinen and CVC Capital Partners . The company had over 14 thousand employees. From 2015 to 2018 Mehiläinen acquired over 40 companies. During one year Mehiläinen built over 700 new apartments for
1050-606: A total of eleven field trips within a period of fifteen years. Prior to the publication of the Kalevala , Elias Lönnrot compiled several related works, including the three-part Kantele (1829–1831), the Old Kalevala (1835) and the Kanteletar (1840). Lönnrot's field trips and endeavours helped him to compile the Kalevala , and brought considerable enjoyment to the people he visited; he would spend much time retelling what he had collected as well as learning new poems. Before
1125-478: Is Finland's most translated work of literature. The Kalevala begins with the traditional Finnish creation myth , leading into stories of the creation of the earth, plants, creatures, and the sky. Creation, healing, combat and internal story telling are often accomplished by the character(s) involved singing of their exploits or desires. Many parts of the stories involve a character hunting or requesting lyrics (prayers) to acquire some skill, such as boatbuilding or
1200-620: Is a pension insurance company in Finland . Varma manages statutory TyEL insurance for employees and YEL insurance for the self-employed and statutory vocational rehabilitation and services relating to predicting and managing work ability risks. Varma is a mutual company and its head office is located in Salmisaari , Helsinki . In 2021, Varma paid out pensions in the amount of 6.2 billion euros to 346,000 people, and at year-end 571,229 people were insured with Varma. In terms of turnover, Varma
1275-476: Is also the translator of, An Illustrated Kalevala Myths and Legends from Finland, published by Floris Books UK. Modern translations were published in the Karelian and Urdu languages between 2009 and 2015. Thus, the Kalevala was published in its originating Karelian language only after 168 years since its first translation into Swedish. As of 2010, the Kalevala had been translated into sixty-one languages and
1350-465: Is credited with discovering and cataloguing the majority of the Kullervo story. Of the dozens of poem singers who contributed to the Kalevala , significant ones are: The poetry was often sung to music built on a pentachord , sometimes assisted by a kantele player. The rhythm could vary but the music was arranged in either two or four lines in 4 metre. The poems were often performed by
1425-507: Is mostly seen as a "sister collection" of the Kalevala . Elias Lönnrot (9 April 1802 – 19 March 1884) was a physician, botanist , linguist , and poet. At the time he was compiling the Kalevala he was the district health officer based in Kajaani responsible for the whole Kainuu region in the eastern part of what was then the Grand Duchy of Finland . He was the son of Fredrik Johan Lönnrot,
1500-535: Is now known as the Kalevala metre . The metre is thought to have originated during the Proto-Finnic period. Its syllables fall into three types: strong, weak, and neutral. Its main rules are as follows: There are two main types of line: Traditional poetry in the Kalevala metre uses both types with approximately the same frequency. The alternating normal and broken tetrameters is a characteristic difference between
1575-504: The Creation of the Earth , describing the controversies and retaliatory voyages between the peoples of the land of Kalevala called Väinölä and the land of Pohjola and their various protagonists and antagonists , as well as the construction and robbery of the epic mythical wealth-making machine Sampo . The Kalevala is regarded as the national epic of Karelia and Finland , and is one of
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#17330943802811650-480: The German company Dalberg Klinik AG. In 2018 Mehiläinen employed over 5400 doctors, of which about 3300 were in active practice. There were over 57 medical centres and a total of over 18,800 employees. The company had eleven hospitals all over Finland. In 2020 healthcare services amounted to 773.2 million euro and social care services to 389.3 million euro of the total revenue. Of the revenue, 596.2 million euro came from
1725-509: The Jersey tax haven , while legal as such, attracted criticism. Mehiläinen was also accused of tax avoidance, as according to Keskisuomalainen it had taken advantage of the concern donations paid to its parent company. According to Helsingin Sanomat Mehiläinen paid its taxes in 2015 normally based on its bottom line: the taxable income was 19.2 million euro, of which 3.8 million euro
1800-497: The Kalevala , called the Old Kalevala , was published in 1835, consisting of 12,078 verses. The version most commonly known today was first published in 1849 and consists of 22,795 verses, divided into fifty folk stories (Finnish: runot ). An abridged version, containing all fifty poems but just 9,732 verses, was published in 1862. In connection with the Kalevala , there is another much more lyrical collection of poems, also compiled by Lönnrot, called Kanteletar from 1840, which
1875-462: The Kalevala . He also met a singer called Matiska in the hamlet of Lonkka on the Russian side of the border. Although this singer had a somewhat poor memory, he did help to fill in many gaps in the work Lönnrot had already catalogued. This trip resulted in the discovery of almost 300 poems at just over 13,000 verses. In the autumn of 1834, Lönnrot had written the vast majority of the work needed for what
1950-406: The Kalevala . Scholars to this day still argue about how much of the Kalevala is genuine folk poetry and how much is Lönnrot's own work – and the degree to which the text is 'authentic' to the oral tradition. During the compilation process it is known that he merged poem variants and characters together, left out verses that did not fit and composed lines of his own to connect certain passages into
2025-743: The LähiTapiola group (20%) as well as the Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company (20%), the State Retirement Fund of Finland and the insurance company Ilmarinen . The three most important business areas of Mehiläinen are private healthcare services, public healthcare services and social care services. The concern also offers mental health services. The OmaMehiläinen service has over one million registered users. It can be used to reserve appointments, request renewal of prescriptions or view one's own healthcare records. In 2020
2100-462: The 16th century the clergy forbade all telling and singing of pagan rites and stories. In conjunction with the arrival of European poetry and music this caused a significant reduction in the number of traditional folk songs and their singers. Thus the tradition faded somewhat but was never totally eradicated. In total, Lönnrot made eleven field trips in search of poetry. His first trip was made in 1828 after his graduation from Turku University, but it
2175-405: The 18th century, Kalevala poetry, also known as runic song , was common throughout Finland and Karelia, but in the 18th century it began to disappear in Finland, first in western Finland, because European rhymed poetry became more common in Finland. Finnish folk poetry was first written down in the 17th century and collected by hobbyists and scholars through the following centuries. Despite this,
2250-400: The 2018 corporate organisation plan the self-sufficiency grade of the concern had increased. Over half of Mehiläinen's doctors are employed as external service providers, and the company OmaPartners Oy partly owned by Mehiläinen pays work commitment shares to its shareholder doctors. In 2018 these shares had been paid for a total sum of 6.05 million euro. In April 2020 Mehiläinen announced that
2325-549: The Hakaniemi medical station. The Mehiläinen hospital had 90 places for the sick, a laboratory and a surgical operation room. The hospital served about 130 thousand patients per year. CapMan and SITRA became Mehiläinen's major owners in 2000. In the next year, the Mehiläinen Hospital Limited Company and Tohtoritalo fused into Mehiläinen Oy. Tohtoritalo had been founded in 1996 as a merger between Meditori and
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2400-660: The Kainuu border regions and then on to the north and finally from Kainuu to the south-east along the border. For the expedition into the north he was accompanied by Juhana Fredrik Cajan . The first part of the trip took Lönnrot all the way to Inari in northern Lapland . The second, southern part of the journey was more successful than the northern part, taking Lönnrot to the town of Sortavala on Lake Ladoga then back up through Savo and eventually back to Kajaani. Although these trips were long and arduous, they resulted in very little Kalevala material; only 1,000 verses were recovered from
2475-422: The Kalevala meter (Trochaic tetrameter) throughout and can be sung or chanted as Elias Lönnrot had intended. Brooks says, "It is essential that the translation of Kalevala into any language follows the Kalevala metre, for that was how these runes were sung in times immemorial. So that readers get the full impact of these ancient runes, it is imperative that they be presented in the same chanting style." Kaarina Brooks
2550-599: The Kalevala metre and other forms of trochaic tetrameter. There are four additional rules: There are two main schemes featured in the Kalevala : The verses are sometimes inverted into chiasmus . Verses 221 to 232 of song forty. Vaka vanha Väinämöinen itse tuon sanoiksi virkki: "Näistäpä toki tulisi kalanluinen kanteloinen, kun oisi osoajata, soiton luisen laatijata." Kun ei toista tullutkana, ei ollut osoajata, soiton luisen laatijata, vaka vanha Väinämöinen itse loihe laatijaksi, tekijäksi teentelihe. Väinämöinen, old and steadfast, Answered in
2625-470: The Mehiläinen digital clinic had about 550 thousand patients in Finland. The service can also be used to contact a doctor remotely. The service is used in Finland and Estonia. The digital clinic allows to handle some of the patients faster than by a traditional appointment. In Finland, for example LähiTapiola, Länsi-Pohja, Siikalatva and Varkaus offer digital services provided by Mehiläinen. Mehiläinen licences
2700-459: The Swedish Ambea concern. Mehiläinen had abandoned the tax shelter in 2012 when its loans had been changed into capital. The Helsinki district court saw that Mehiläinen was guilty of tax evasion. Mehiläinen appealed the decision to the supreme court, but paid 13.8 million euro in tax even before the supreme court gave its verdict. Of the sum 8.8 million euro was tax and increased tax, the rest was late payment charges. In May 2019 Finnwatch published
2775-829: The Swedish daughter company of the Ambea concern, was acquired by Mehiläinen. In 2009, the company started offering healthcare and home care services in Karis with the Carema name. Mehiläinen started offering services for child protection and mental health rehabilitation through the Leivoyhtiöt company. In 2010 KKR and Swedish company Triton AB became the major owners of Mehiläinen. In the 2010s, many Finnish municipalities privatised their social and healthcare services to Mehiläinen and other companies. In municipalities who had outsourced their social and healthcare services, there were many problems in reaching
2850-499: The Vagus medical station. In 2002 the company acquired Remedi from Vaasa and Säveri from Kuopio . In the next year the company acquired a further nine companies. In 2006 CapMan and SITRA sold the majority of Mehiläinen's shares to the Swedish investor company 3i and Mehiläinen became part of the Swedish Ambea concern. In 2007 Carema Hoivapalvelut Oy, the Finnish daughter company of Carema,
2925-405: The aim of collecting folk songs and poetry. Rather than continue this work, though, he decided to complete his studies and entered Imperial Alexander University in Helsinki to study medicine. He earned a master's degree in 1832. In January 1833, he started as the district health officer of Kainuu and began his work on collecting poetry and compiling the Kalevala . Throughout his career Lönnrot made
3000-506: The arrival of Christianity, seem to be from the Iron Age , which in Finland lasted until c. 1300 CE . Finnish folklorist Kaarle Krohn proposes that 20 of the 45 poems of the Kalevala are of possible Ancient Estonian origin or at least deal with a motif of Estonian origin (of the remainder, two are Ingrian and 23 are Western Finnish). It is understood that during the Finnish reformation in
3075-475: The bombing of Helsinki in February 1944 the hospital was damaged and was forced to shut down almost all activities for a while. Group services by special doctors were started in 1957. In 1964 the city of Espoo rented 34 bed places from Mehiläinen. In 1974 the company started offering work healthcare services. The company was renamed Sairaalaosakeyhtiö Mehiläinen in 1978. The childbirth department of Mehiläinen
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3150-458: The city of Helsinki from the newly constructed area in Pohjois-Töölö , and the first part of the hospital was completed in autumn 1932 at Hesperiankatu 17. The company created rental apartments in its old premises. In 1933 the hospital was expanded to Runeberginkatu, and the third phase was completed in 1937, at which time the building right of the lots was exhausted. The hospital had 128 places for
3225-502: The culture more completely. The seventh field trip took him on a long winding path through the southern and eastern parts of the Viena poem singing region. He was delayed significantly in Kuhmo because of bad skiing conditions. By the end of that trip, Lönnrot had collected another 100 poems consisting of over 4,000 verses. Lönnrot made his eighth field trip to the Russian border town of Lapukka where
3300-419: The ear than being an exact metrical translation; it also often reduces the length of songs for aesthetic reasons. In the introduction to his 1989 translation, Keith Bosley stated: "The only way I could devise of reflecting the vitality of Kalevala metre was to invent my own, based on syllables rather than feet. While translating over 17,000 lines of Finnish folk poetry before I started on the epic, I found that
3375-554: The elderly, the disabled and mental health rehabilitants. The Mehiläinen home service was active in over 150 municipalities. In April 2019 the OP Financial Group announced it would sell the healthcare services of Pohjola Terveys to Mehiläinen, having offered workplace healthcare services to 800 customer companies with a total of almost 19 thousand employees. In November Mehiläinen announced it would acquire Pihlajalinna . At this time Mehiläinen's revenue reached one billion euro for
3450-445: The end of the 19th century this pastime of collecting material relating to Karelia and the developing orientation towards eastern lands had become a fashion called Karelianism , a form of national romanticism . The chronology of this oral tradition is uncertain. The oldest themes, the origin of Earth, have been interpreted to have their roots in distant, unrecorded history and could be as old as 3,000 years. The newest events, e.g.
3525-512: The first time, at a total of 1064 million euro. In 2020 Mehiläinen made its first foreign acquisition, when its daughter company BeeHealthy bought the Stockholm -based company Sibyllekliniken. BeeHealthy was separated into a separate company for new start-up activities selling Mehiläinen's digital services abroad. In September the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority made a proposal to
3600-486: The great singer Arhippa Perttunen had learned his trade. In correspondence he notes that he has written down many new poems but is unclear on the quantity. Elias Lönnrot departed on the first part of his ninth field trip on 16 September 1836. He was granted a 14-month leave of absence and a sum of travelling expenses from the Finnish Literary Society . His funds came with some stipulations: he must travel around
3675-455: The history of the poem, comparisons between the original Old Kalevala and the current version, and a detailed glossary of terms and names used in the poem. Magoun translated the Old Kalevala , which was published six years later entitled The Old Kalevala and Certain Antecedents . Eino Friberg 's 1988 translation uses the original metre selectively but in general is more attuned to pleasing
3750-512: The interest to Sweden. As the buyer was a foreign company, the company did not have to pay real estate transfer tax to Finland. For the parent company, the interest paid by the daughter company is exempt from tax. In 2010 the Swedish Triton AB became Mehiläinen's second main owner in addition to the American company KKR. In 2011 the aggressive tax shelter that Triton had been practicing in
3825-514: The majority of Finnish poetry remained only in the oral tradition. Finnish-born nationalist and linguist Carl Axel Gottlund (1796–1875) expressed his desire for a Finnish epic in a similar vein to the Iliad , Ossian and the Nibelungenlied compiled from the various poems and songs spread over most of Finland. He hoped that such an endeavour would incite a sense of nationality and independence in
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#17330943802813900-465: The market court to forbid the merger between Mehiläinen and Pihlajalinna. In late November Mehiläinen and Pihlajalinna announced that the deal had been cancelled. In 2021 Mehiläinen acquired the Estonian workplace healthcare company Qvalitas as well as three dental care stations, of which the firstly acquired company Unimed fused with the later acquisitions of KW and Al Mare. In November Mehiläinen acquired
3975-439: The mastery of iron making. As well as prayer casting and singing, there are many stories of lust, romance, kidnapping and seduction. The protagonists of the stories often have to accomplish feats that are unreasonable or impossible which they often fail to achieve, leading to tragedy and humiliation. Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company Varma Pension Insurance Company (Finnish: Keskinäinen työeläkevakuutusyhtiö Varma )
4050-591: The missing doctors by moving their work to nurses and by offering digital services. Mediverkko and Mehiläinen announced their merger in November 2014. Janne-Olli Järvenpää, the founder and CEO of Mediverkko, became the CEO of the new company. Mediverkko was acquired by Mehiläinen in January 2015. At the time, the concern had a total revenue of over 360 million euro and over nine thousand employees. In summer 2017 LähiTapiola bought
4125-538: The most significant works of Finnish literature along with J. L. Runeberg 's The Tales of Ensign Stål and Aleksis Kivi 's The Seven Brothers . The Kalevala was instrumental in the development of the Finnish national identity and the intensification of Finland's language strife that ultimately led to Finland's independence from Russia in 1917. The work is known internationally and has partly influenced, for example, J. R. R. Tolkien 's legendarium (i.e. Middle-earth mythology). The first version of
4200-438: The native Finnish people. In 1820, Reinhold von Becker [ fi ] founded the journal Turun Wiikko-Sanomat (Turku Weekly News) and published three articles entitled Väinämöisestä ( Concerning Väinämöinen ). These works were an inspiration for Elias Lönnrot in creating his masters thesis at Turku University. In the 19th century, collecting became more extensive, systematic and organised. Altogether, almost half
4275-549: The poem variants; one poem could easily have countless variants, scattered across rural areas of Karelia and Ingria . Lönnrot was not really interested in, and rarely wrote down the name of the singer except for some of the more prolific cases. His primary purpose in the region was that of a physician and of an editor, not of a biographer or counsellor. He rarely knew anything in-depth about the singer himself and primarily only catalogued verse that could be relevant or of some use in his work. The student David Emmanuel Daniel Europaeus
4350-418: The promised level of services in organising both the municipality's own activity and control of outsourced services. According to the city of Kemi , half of the doctors agreed in the contract with Länsi-Pohja Oy were missing. According to Lasse Männistö , the CEO of Mehiläinen Länsi-Pohja Oy, the missing doctors were Kemi's own fault, as the premises were poor. According to Männistö, the company intends to amend
4425-500: The public sector, 306.3 million euro from corporate customers and the remaining 260.0 million euro from private customers. Mehiläinen employed about 70 software developers producing its digital services. Mehiläinen works abroad through the BeeHealthy brand. In spring 2021 BeeHealthy had 50 employees. In autumn 2021 the five largest owners of Mehiläinen were the funds controlled by the Luxembourgian company CVC Capital Partners (56%),
4500-632: The sick and also space for newly-born babies. The last completed part also had space for apartments and businesses. During the Winter War the hospital first served as a first aid station for the city of Helsinki, until it became a military hospital for the Finnish Red Cross , later known as the Töölö Hospital . The hospital also served as a military hospital during the Continuation War . During
4575-428: The southern half and an unknown quantity from the northern half. The tenth field trip is a relative unknown. What is known however, is that Lönnrot intended to gather poems and songs to compile into the upcoming work Kanteletar . He was accompanied by his friend C. H. Ståhlberg for the majority of the trip. During that journey the pair met Mateli Magdalena Kuivalatar in the small border town of Ilomantsi . Kuivalatar
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#17330943802814650-415: The supreme court had declined its appeal and the legal process that had been ongoing for several years was at an end. In 2011 the Swedish healthcare service company Carema owned by Triton received criticism about cutting expenses related to everyday healthcare services. Because of the public controversy caused by the death of a patient in an Esperi Care nursery home in January 2019, Yle revealed that of
4725-447: The three largest nursery home companies in Finland, Mehiläinen had had problems related to shortages of nursery staff just as well as Esperi Care and Attendo had. The Regional State Administrative Agency had found deficiencies in Mehiläinen nursery homes, but the problems were not as severe than with the other companies Yle had investigated. In autumn 2021 there were widespread news about problems in Mehiläinen nursery homes. The matter
4800-591: The town of Akonlahti, which proved most successful. This trip yielded over 3,000 verses and copious notes. In 1833, Lönnrot moved to Kajaani where he was to spend the next 20 years as the district health officer for the region, living in the Hövelö croft located near the Lake Oulujärvi in the Paltaniemi village, spending his spare time searching for poems. His fourth field trip was undertaken in conjunction with his work as
4875-543: The word in folk songs was recorded in April 1836. Lönnrot chose it as the title for his project sometime at the end of 1834, but his choice was not random. The name "Kalev" appears in Finnic and Baltic folklore in many locations, and the Sons of Kalev are known throughout Finnish and Estonian folklore. Lönnrot produced Lyhennetty laitos , an abridged version of the Kalevala, in 1862. It
4950-461: The words which follow: "Yet a harp might be constructed Even of the bones of fishes, If there were a skilful workman, Who could from the bones construct it." As no craftsman there was present, And there was no skilful workman Who could make a harp of fishbones, Väinämöinen, old and steadfast, Then began the harp to fashion, And himself the work accomplished. Very little is actually known about Elias Lönnrot's personal contributions to
5025-417: Was bought to public attention because of the treatment of an autistic boy, but other widespread problems were found in the unit. The police started investigating the matter. Kalevala The Kalevala ( IPA: [ˈkɑleʋɑlɑ] ) is a 19th-century compilation of epic poetry , compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology , telling an epic story about
5100-703: Was discontinued in June 1980. In 1984 the company bought the Hakaniemi medical station and its daughter company, the Kielotie medical station in Vantaa . The deal also included the Forum medical station, which only started activities in 1986. Mehiläinen renovated its concern structure from 1994 to 1995. The Kalevankatu medical station was fused to the parent company and the Forum medical station into
5175-609: Was entitled Kalewala, taikka Wanhoja Karjalan Runoja Suomen Kansan muinoisista ajoista ("The Kalevala, or old Karelian poems about ancient times of the Finnish people"), also known as the Old Kalevala . It was published in two volumes in 1835–1836. The Old Kalevala consisted of 12,078 verses making up a total of thirty-two poems. Even after the publication of the Old Kalevala Lönnrot continued to collect new material for several years. He later integrated this additional material, with significantly edited existing material, into
5250-482: Was intended for use in schools. It retains all 50 poems from the 1849 version, but omits more than half of the verses. Of the few complete translations into English, it is only the older translations by John Martin Crawford (1888) and William Forsell Kirby (1907) which attempt to strictly follow the original ( Kalevala metre ) of the poems. A notable partial translation of Franz Anton Schiefner 's German translation
5325-512: Was made by Prof. John Addison Porter in 1868 and published by Leypoldt & Holt . Edward Taylor Fletcher , a British-born Canadian literature enthusiast, translated selections of the Kalevala in 1869. He read them before the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec on 17 March 1869. Francis Peabody Magoun published a scholarly translation of the Kalevala in 1963 written entirely in prose. The appendices of this version contain notes on
5400-477: Was not until 1831 and his second field trip that the real work began. By that time he had already published three articles entitled Kantele and had significant notes to build upon. This second trip was not very successful and he was called back to Helsinki to attend to victims of the Second cholera pandemic . The third field trip was much more successful and led Elias Lönnrot to Viena in east Karelia where he visited
5475-463: Was paid in tax. In May 2016 Mehiläinen's CEO commented on the company's reputation which had suffered because of the tax shelter and said that because of the controversy the company's activities had been completely revised. Mehiläinen had been separated from its Swedish parent company and both the CEO and the board had been replaced. From 2017 to 2018 the Helsinki district court reviewed Mehiläinen's tax shelter from 2006 to 2012 when it had been part of
5550-518: Was to become the Old Kalevala ; all that was required was to tie up some narrative loose ends and complete the work. His sixth field trip took him into Kuhmo, a municipality in Kainuu to the south of Viena. There he collected over 4,000 verses and completed the first draft of his work. He wrote the foreword and published in February of the following year. With the Old Kalevala well into its first publication run, Lönnrot decided to continue collecting poems to supplement his existing work and to understand
5625-599: Was very important to the development of the Kanteletar . The eleventh documented field trip was another undertaken in conjunction with his medical work. During the first part of the trip, Lönnrot returned to Akonlahti in Russian Karelia, where he gathered 80 poems and a total of 800 verses. The rest of the trip suffers from poor documentation. Lönnrot and his contemporaries, e.g. Matthias Castrén , Anders Johan Sjögren, and David Emmanuel Daniel Europaeus collected most of
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