Finnish "Thomas the Rhymer" cover!
Sep. 2nd, 2008 02:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The book's not out yet, but my Finnish publisher, Vaskikirjat has just posted their cover for Thomas the Rhymer . It couldn't be more different from Tom Canty's or Kinuko Craft's (or any of the other that's we're working on putting up for my website) . . . but to me it really has that Kalevala flavor, all folky wildness. You?


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Date: 2008-09-08 05:43 am (UTC)« Hello, Vainamoinen.
— What time is it, Ilmarinen?
— Restaurant, Vainamoinen.
— Thank you. Bye. »
Not overly mythic.
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Date: 2008-09-08 02:02 pm (UTC)Sigh. How lucky Europeans are to be living in, well, Europe!
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Date: 2008-09-09 07:22 am (UTC)If you know your Kalevala, you know Lemminkäinen was _the_ seducer of women - even his name is derived from the word lempi, (erotic) love. Thomas of course was a ladies' man but I think the power balance in his relationship with the Queen makes the analogy hard to accept...
Johanna Vainikainen-Uusitalo
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Date: 2008-09-09 07:34 am (UTC)