MAAMME LAULU (Vårt Land [Swedish], Our Land or Our Country's Song), Finland's national anthem, composed by Fredrik Pacius (–) (see PACIUS, FREDRIK) to a Swedish text by J. L. Runeberg (–) (see RUNEBERG, JOHAN LUDVIG), a Swedish text by a Finnish poet set to music by a German.
The text comes from the first entry in Runeberg's Fänrik Ståls Sägner (The Tales of Ensign Stål, 1848), a collection of lyrical ballads describing the deeds and achievements...