Maamme
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Maamme
Our Land, Maamme (
Finnish
), or Vårt land (
Swedish
), is the title of
Finland
's de facto
national anthem
. The music was composed by the
German
immigrant
Fredrik Pacius
, with (original
Swedish
) words by the
Swedish-speaking Finn
Johan Ludvig Runeberg
, and was performed for the first time on
13 May
1848
. The original poem, written in 1846 but not printed until 1848, had 11
stanzas
and formed the prologue to the great verse cycle
The Tales of Ensign Stål
("Fänrik Ståhls Sägner"), a masterpiece of
Romantic nationalism
. The current Finnish text is usually attributed to the 1889 translation of Ensign Stål by
Paavo Cajander
, but in fact originates from the 1867 translation by
Julius Krohn
.
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