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Anders and Christina Fjellner with their daughter Marta Eleonora (1871)

Anders Fjellner (born September 18, 1795 on Rutfjäll in Härjedalen ; † February 22, 1876 in Sorsele ) was a Sami- Swedish poet , pastor and story collector . He was best known for his poem The Sons of the Sun , which was translated from Umesam into numerous languages.

life and work

Anders Fjellner was born in the open air on a reindeer herd migration from Norway to the Swedish pasture near Rutfjäll. His parents were seeds . From 1819 to 1821 he studied in Uppsala. He was a pastor for more than 50 years. At first he represented alternate pastors in central Lapland and in Karesuando , where he worked with Lars Levi Laestadius ; In 1841 he became a pastor in southern Lapland in Sorsele, where he lived until his death. Throughout his life, influenced by Elias Lönnrot , he collected songs, stories, myths and legends, which the Sami passed on orally from generation to generation. He translated the traditional yoiks , making them accessible to a wider audience. He became an important informant for folklorists . Fjellner was a great storyteller and very poetically gifted. In Sorsele he was visited by scientists, including the Finnish linguist Otto Donner , who published many of his songs in his book Lieder der Lappen .

Fjellner's mythical long poem Peiven Parneh (Solens söner / The Sons of the Sun) became particularly well known and widespread, and was not only noticed by the Sami and Swedes, but also in Germany, Finland and the rest of Europe. It was edited for the theater and has been the subject of numerous scientific studies. The epic-like work is about the journey of the son of the sun to the land of giants. The story is very substantial and extensive. In the end, the sons of the Sun Son, conceived after marrying the daughter of a giant, will be transformed into the stars of the Orion Belt after their death . These, the children of light or the sun, are, according to myth, the ancestors of the Sami. Other authors have taken up Fjellner's motif, for example the Sami writer and artist Nils-Aslak Valkeapää in his Beaivi, Áhčážan (Sun, my father) published in 1988 .

Quote

" Aijadahkan, vuońeldahkan / Nalne somattīn morssem, / Unnoi olmučen ūtan. / Alde arkun akšuin uksait / Kljedīen, kobdadīen, / Stōpuit stúorudīen. / Son tie kuötti päive-pārnit, / Son tē kuotti kalla-pārnit.
(Translation of the first and last lines of verse: On the bear and reindeer skin / The bride celebrated the wedding, [...] / She gave birth to the sun children / She gave birth to the Kalla sons. "

- Anders Fjellner

plant

  • Anders Fjellner: "Päiven Parne '." In: Otto Donner. Songs of the rag. Finnish Literature Society, Helsinki, 1876

In translation

literature

  • Johanna Domokos: Translators mapping of Anders Fjellner's Peivash Parneh which maps the Sami oral traditions that maps . In: Ural-Altai yearbooks . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2007, ISSN  0174-0652 .
  • Otto Donner: songs of the rag . (English). BiblioBazaar, 2009, ISBN 978-1-113-05349-7 .
  • Harald Gaski: Song, Poetry and Images in Writing. Sami Literature . In: Nordlit . Issue 27, Tromsø 2011, ISSN  0809-1668 .
  • Eldar Heide: Menneskesjela som vind i den samiske folkevisa Solsonen . Svenska landsmål och svenskt folkliv, 2007.
  • Jürg Glauser (ed.): Scandinavian literary history . Metzler, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-476-01973-X .
  • Bo Lundmark: Anders Fjellner, samernas Homeros och diktningen om solsönerna . Skrifter i västerbottnisk kulturhistoria. Umeå 1979.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johanna Domokos: Translators mapping of Anders Fjellner's Peivash Parneh which maps the Sami oral traditions that maps . In: Ural-Altai yearbooks . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2007
  2. ↑ The source of the biographical information is Fjellner's biography by Bo Lundmark
  3. ↑ Lappalaisia ​​Lauluja / Lieder der Lappen (Finnish and German), Helsinki 1876
  4. ↑ For example in Inger Zachrisson in: Oral traditions, archeology and linguistics. The early history of the Saami in Scandinavia . In: Roger Blench: Archeology and Language I. Theoretical and Methodological Orientations . Abingdon 1997, ISBN 0-415-11760-7 .
  5. ↑ Vuokko Hirvonen: Saamische literature . In: Scandinavian literary history . Metzler, Stuttgart 2006
  6. ↑ Calla, according to Donner, the Sami called the star constellation of Sirius .
  7. ↑ From: Päiven Pārne ' . In: Lappalaisia ​​Lauluja / Lieder der Lappen . Helsinki 1876
personal data
SURNAME Fjellner, Anders
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sami-Swedish poet and story collector
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Rutfjäll, Härjedalen
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1876
Place of death Sorsele