Word: runeberg
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...goner), I was particularly delighted to see that my countrymen licked the Russians in the Nordic winter sports [TIME, March i]; but please do not call the Finnish national anthem "Our Lord" in English. Maamme means "Our Country," and is a translation from Johan Ludvig Runeberg's poem Vart Land . . . But I am too delighted to kick about it, and "Our Lord" may be just as good as Maamme when it comes to sing for the Slobos (Finnish slang word for the Russians), and may have a better influence...
...high schoolers successively blared Finlandia, a stirring tone-poem of famed Finn Jean Sibelius. Although the genius of Sibelius has brought him a permanent subsidy from the Finnish government, he did not compose the national anthem: Maame Laulu ("The Song of our Country"), opus of Funns Bacius (composer) and Runeberg (poet...
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