Talk:Hakkapeliittain Marssi

Background?
Surely this is a story distortion? The march was adopted by the Norrbotten Regiment in 1916, before Finland was even a state. The march occurred while Finland was part of Sweden and the 30 year war. The first time the march must have been played in an official context was during the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912 when the Swedish Armed Forces at the Grand Duchy of Finland inaugurated at the Stockholm Stadium played the Finnish equestrian march. The Norrbotten Regiment still uses the march today. This article needs to be corrected.80.216.143.246 (talk) 00:47, 16 January 2020 (UTC)


 * No, it's not distorted. The march in current form is based on military director Lauri Hämäläinen's adaptation in 1800's (He added a folklore song as the trio part of the march). Like the article mentions lyrics were created by Topelius whom was known Finnish writer especially in nationalistic context. The march was already used in the 4th (Oulu) Sharpshooter Battalion (1881 - 1901) of the Grand Duchy of Finland. The usage of march in the Grand Duchy as a honorary march predates the Norbotten Regiment as it was played on the battalion's first oath ceremony in Oulu. Current day the march is the honorary march of the Finnish Defence Command and the Finnish Army. 2001:2003:F756:B000:D9F2:9D7B:445C:ED1B (talk) 17:07, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

Lyrics
I've restructured the lyrics into a single section with the different language versions as subsections. I think it's marginally better than it was before, but I'm far from happy with that — takes up a lot of space, and comparing the languages is difficult. I think it would be clearer as a table, but I tried that, and with five columns each column becomes too narrow (at least on smaller screens), which again doesn't work very well. One possibility would be to remove the Finnish alternative lyrics and/or one of the English translations, to reduce the number of columns needed. Thoughts? --DoubleGrazing (talk) 09:27, 5 December 2020 (UTC)