Elias Lönnrot (monument)

Elias Lönnrot is a monument in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, by a Finnish sculptor Emil Wikström, unveiled in 1902.

[1][2] The bronze and granite monument is situated in the Southern Helsinki Kamppi neighborhood on Lönnrotinkatu street, in front of Ressun lukio in small Lönnrot's Park.

Väinämöinen rises from the mouth of a giant Antero Vipunen, carved on the right side of the granite pedestal.

Antero Vipunen has a pentagram on the forehead, symbolizing his divine protection and magic power.

Next to Lönnrot's name the front of the pedestal contains the words from Kalevala, poem 17: "Sain sanat salasta ilmi", which was translated by John Martin Crawford (1888) as "Hidden deep for many ages, learned the words of ancient wisdom".