Kalevi (mythology)

Kaleva – also known as Kalevi or Kalev – and his sons are important heroic figures in Estonian, Finnish and Karelian mythology.

I was with the Greeks and Finns and also with Caesar ...Some historians have interpreted the term "Caelic" to refer to the ancient Finnish ruler Kaleva mentioned in the Kalevala.

The first clear written references appear in a list of deities published by Mikael Agricola in 1551 and in the Leyen Spiegel by Heinrich Stahl (1641).

[3] According to the 18th-century Finnish folklore-collector Kristfrid Ganander, Kaleva had twelve sons in total, including Väinämöinen, Ilmarinen and Hiisi.

[4] Oskar Kallis, an Estonian painter from the 1900s, produced the Kalevipoeg series of paintings portraying the epic heroic figure Kaleva/Kalevi/Kalev.