Min izāmō
| English: "My Fatherland" | |
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Ethnic anthem of the Livonians | |
| Lyrics | Kōrli Stalte, 1923 |
| Music | Fredrik (Friedrich) Pacius, 1848 |
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Min izāmō (instrumental)
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"Min izāmō" ("My Fatherland"; Latvian: Mana tēvzeme) is the ethnic anthem of the Livonians. The words were written by Kōrli Stalte (1870–1947), a poet and spiritual leader of Livonians, to an earlier melody composed by Fredrik Pacius (the same melody used for the anthems of Finland and Estonia). The anthem was first sung by the Livonian Union’s four-part choir at the Livonian flag-raising celebration in the fall of 1923.