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The Aino Myth

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Oil triptych by Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1891). Illustrates the Kalevala story of Aino who drowns rather than marry the aged Vainamoinen. Finnish National Gallery (Ateneum), Helsinki.

Scholarly Significance

Anchor Finnish National Romanticism with Gallen-Kallela's The Aino Myth.

Notes

·Kalevala runo 3-5: Aino promised to Vainamoinen by her brother who lost a singing contest; she drowns rather than marry him.
·Gallen-Kallela's first major Kalevala work; established his visual vocabulary for Finnish national imagery.
·Exhibited at the Paris Salon 1891; recognized as a major work of European Symbolism.
·Gallen-Kallela would return to the Kalevala throughout his career: The Kullervo Curse (1899), The Sampo triptych (1896).