This glossary is a reader aid, not a substitute for Finnish, Karelian, Sámi, or community-led reference works.

Aleksis Kivi (1834–1872) — Finnish author of poetry, drama, and fiction. His Seitsemän veljestä is a foundational Finnish-language novel, first issued in 1870 and later in one volume in 1873.

Finnic languages — A branch of the Uralic family including Finnish, Estonian, Karelian, Veps, Livonian, and other distinct languages. “Finnic” is not a synonym for Finnish.

Finnish / suomi — A Finnic language and one of Finland's national languages. Language, nationality, citizenship, ethnicity, and literary field overlap in some contexts but are not interchangeable.

Finland / Suomi — A multilingual country. Finnish-language writing is central to its literature but does not exhaust Swedish-language Finnish literature, Sámi literatures, Karelian, Romani, sign-language, immigrant-language, or multilingual writing.

Häme — A historical and cultural region of southern Finland. The opening locates Jukola in southern Häme. This geographic setting should not be made to represent every Finnish region.

Karelian — A distinct Finnic language and cultural field. White Sea Karelian and other Karelian singers contributed profoundly to the song archives from which Lönnrot worked. Their materials should not be treated as ownerless folklore or automatically renamed Finnish.

Kalevala — Elias Lönnrot's literary synthesis built through extensive collection, arrangement, combination, and composition involving Finnish, Karelian, and Ingrian-related runosong traditions. It is not the same kind of work as Kivi's authored novel.

Project Lönnrot — A Finnish electronic-text project named for Elias Lönnrot. The Seitsemän veljestä root page identifies Project Lönnrot as the source of its ebook. Good Works preserves that transcription through exact Finnish Wikisource revisions.

published-source-language-only — A campaign label meaning the complete source-language work is public but no continuous English reader translation is supplied. It does not mean the work is incomplete.

runosong / runolaulu — A family of oral poetic practices associated with Kalevala-meter song. Performance, singer, locality, language, collection encounter, and printed editorial arrangement all matter.

Sámi languages — A group of distinct Uralic languages spoken across Sápmi. They are related to Finnish at the family level but are not Finnish dialects. The Good Works Sámi room remains separate.

Seitsemän veljestä — “Seven Brothers,” Aleksis Kivi's fourteen-chapter novel. The current Good Works text is a complete historical-Finnish Project Lönnrot/Wikisource transcription, not an English translation or a diplomatic scan edition. See the complete text.

1870 / 1873 publication boundary — The source page says the novel first appeared in four booklets in 1870 and as one volume in 1873. That statement gives publication history; it does not by itself prove that every electronic reading was collated against a specific physical 1873 copy.

Uralic — A language family containing Finnish, Estonian, Sámi languages, Hungarian, Mari, Udmurt, Komi, Mordvinic languages, Khanty, Mansi, Samoyedic languages, and others. It is not one ethnicity, religion, folklore corpus, or national literature.