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Smuuli J. (Juhan Smuul, 1922-1971)
Known by his Germanic name Johannes Schmuul until 1954. People’s Writer and winner of the Stalin Prize (1952) and Lenin Prize (1961). The Estonian SSR State Prize was named after him (the Juhan Smuul Literary Prize), an honor he shared with Aram Khatchaturian (for the Armenian SSR equivalent). Author of the rousing song Lähme tööle (Let’s go to work!) and I, a Komsomol, a poem I’ve long been promising myself to read... Vague noises circulate about a possible street-name change. Hint: Suitsupääsuse would be a good idea, or why not Smurfide, with its switch from red to blue? This street is part of the E67 from Helsinki to Prague.
Sanglepa (Sanglepp)
Aka must lepp or mustlepp (black alder), emalepp (mother alder), seatamm (pig oak), black, European or common alder, Alnus glutinosa. 3% of Estonian stands consist of this. Used for furniture and curing fish and meat. The sang has cognates in other Finnic languages for ‘thick’ or ‘dense’, as indeed is its wood. See Lepa.
Smurfide (Smurfid, pl.)
Smurfs, sing. Smurf. No such place, never was, never will be. Bright-blue Belgian comic characters.
