--- title: "4 Elias Lönnrot Quotes" description: "Elias Lönnrot was a Finnish polymath, physician, philosopher, poet, musician, linguist, journalist, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish ora..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e31/elias-l-nnrot-73208_epic-poetry_craftsman-ilmarinen-wept-every-evening-f_313186.jpg" --- # Elias Lönnrot **4** quotes in **10** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Elias Lönnrot was a Finnish polymath, physician, philosopher, poet, musician, linguist, journalist, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry. He is best known for synthesizing the Finnish national epic, Kalevala from short ballads and lyric poems he gathered from Finnish oral tra ## Quotes by Elias Lönnrot > [“Craftsman Ilmarinen wept Every evening for his woman, Weeping sleepless through the nights And fasting through the days; In the early hours…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elias-l-nnrot/craftsman-ilmarinen-wept-every-evening-for-his-woman-weeping/) Elias Lönnrot [Epic poetry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/epic-poetry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e31/elias-l-nnrot-73208_epic-poetry_craftsman-ilmarinen-wept-every-evening-f_313186.jpg) > [“Once to swim I sought the sea-side, There to sport among the billows; With the stone of many colors Sank poor Aino…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elias-l-nnrot/once-to-swim-i-sought-the-sea-side-there-to-sport-among-the-billows/) Elias Lönnrot [Dear mother](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dear-mother/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ceb/elias-l-nnrot-73208_death_once-to-swim-i-sought-the-sea-side-there_1198506.jpg) > [“For this I weep all my days and throughout my lifetime grieve that I swam from my own lands and came from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elias-l-nnrot/for-this-i-weep-all-my-days-and-throughout-my-lifetime-grieve-that-i/) Elias Lönnrot [Homesickness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/homesickness/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df2/elias-l-nnrot-73208_homesickness_for-this-i-weep-all-my-days-and-througho_1886601.jpg) > [“Words shall not be hid nor spells buried might shall not sink underground though the mighty go.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elias-l-nnrot/words-shall-not-be-hid-nor-spells-buried-might-shall-not-sink/) Elias Lönnrot [Power of words](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/power-of-words/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ed/elias-l-nnrot-73208_power-of-words_words-shall-not-be-hid-nor-spells-buried_3201708.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elias-l-nnrot/#itemlist", "name": "Elias Lönnrot Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Craftsman Ilmarinen wept Every evening for his woman, Weeping sleepless through the nights And fasting through the days; In the early hours complaining, Every morning sighing for her, Lamenting for his lovely lost one, For his dear one in the grave. For a month he swung no hammer, Did not touch the copper handle, and the clinking forge was silent. Said the craftsman Ilmarinen: \"I poor fellow, do not know How to live or how survive; Sitting up or lying down Nights are long and time is tedious. I am troubled, low in spirit. 'Lonely are the nights now,lonely And the mornings dreary, dreary. In my sleeping I am troubled, But the waking is the saddest. It's not for evening that I'm lonely, Not for morning that I'm dreary, Not for olden times lamenting, But I'm lonely for my loved one, Dreary for the missing of her, Lamenting for my dark-browed lovely. 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Never come a-fishing, father, To the borders of these waters, Never during all thy life-time, As thou lovest daughter Aino. Mother dear, I sought the sea-side, There to sport among the billows; With the stone of many colors, Sank poor Aino to the bottom Of the deep and boundless blue-sea, Like a pretty song-bird perished. Never mix thy bread, dear mother, With the blue-sea's foam and waters, Never during all thy life-time, As thou lovest daughter Aino. Brother dear, I sought the sea-side, There to sport among the billows; With the stone of many colors Sank poor Aino to the bottom Of the deep and boundless blue-sea, Like a pretty song-bird perished. Never bring thy prancing war-horse, Never bring thy royal racer, Never bring thy steeds to water, To the borders of the blue-sea, Never during all thy life-time, As thou lovest sister Aino. Sister dear, I sought the sea-side, There to sport among the billows; With the stone of many colors Sank poor Aino to the bottom Of the deep and boundless blue-sea, Like a pretty song-bird perished. Never come to lave thine eyelids In this rolling wave and sea-foam, Never during all thy life-time, As thou lovest sister Aino. All the waters in the blue-sea Shall be blood of Aino's body; All the fish that swim these waters Shall be Aino's flesh forever; All the willows on the sea-side Shall be Aino's ribs hereafter; All the sea-grass on the margin Will have grown from Aino's tresses.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Elias Lönnrot" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elias-l-nnrot/once-to-swim-i-sought-the-sea-side-there-to-sport-among-the-billows/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ceb/elias-l-nnrot-73208_death_once-to-swim-i-sought-the-sea-side-there_1198506.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ceb/elias-l-nnrot-73208_death_once-to-swim-i-sought-the-sea-side-there_1198506.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ceb/elias-l-nnrot-73208_death_once-to-swim-i-sought-the-sea-side-there_1198506.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Once to swim I sought the sea-side, There to sport among the billows; With the stone of many colors Sank…” — Elias Lönnrot", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“For this I weep all my days and throughout my lifetime grieve that I swam from my own lands and came from familiar lands towards these strange doors to these foreign gates.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Elias Lönnrot" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elias-l-nnrot/for-this-i-weep-all-my-days-and-throughout-my-lifetime-grieve-that-i/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df2/elias-l-nnrot-73208_homesickness_for-this-i-weep-all-my-days-and-througho_1886601.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df2/elias-l-nnrot-73208_homesickness_for-this-i-weep-all-my-days-and-througho_1886601.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df2/elias-l-nnrot-73208_homesickness_for-this-i-weep-all-my-days-and-througho_1886601.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“For this I weep all my days and throughout my lifetime grieve that I swam from my own lands and came from…” — Elias Lönnrot", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Words shall not be hid nor spells buried might shall not sink underground though the mighty go.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Elias Lönnrot" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elias-l-nnrot/words-shall-not-be-hid-nor-spells-buried-might-shall-not-sink/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ed/elias-l-nnrot-73208_power-of-words_words-shall-not-be-hid-nor-spells-buried_3201708.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ed/elias-l-nnrot-73208_power-of-words_words-shall-not-be-hid-nor-spells-buried_3201708.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ed/elias-l-nnrot-73208_power-of-words_words-shall-not-be-hid-nor-spells-buried_3201708.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Words shall not be hid nor spells buried might shall not sink underground though the mighty go.” — Elias Lönnrot", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elias-l-nnrot/#person", "name": "Elias Lönnrot", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elias-l-nnrot/", "description": "Elias Lönnrot was a Finnish polymath, physician, philosopher, poet, musician, linguist, journalist, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry. 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