Olen may refer to:
- Places
- Olen, Belgium, a municipality in the province of Antwerp, Belgium
- Olen, Russia, a village in Tula Oblast, Russia
- Ølen, a former municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway
- People
- Olen (poet), an ancient Greek poet from Lycia
- Olen Steinhauer (b. 1970), a US novelist
- Olen Underwood, an American football player
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Olen (poet)
Olen (Ancient Greek: Ὠλήν) was a legendary early poet from Lycia who went to Delos, where his hymns celebrating the first handmaidens of Apollo in the island of the god's birth and other "ancient hymns" were still part of the cult at Delos in the time of Herodotus:
The hieratic poetry of Olen is now entirely lost. Pausanias wrote, "The Lycian Olen, an earlier poet, who composed for the Delians, among other hymns, one to Eileithyia, styles her 'the clever spinner', clearly identifying her with fate, and makes her older than Cronos." (Description of Greece 8.21.3). Apparently Olen's hymn reflected the pre-Hellenic role of Eileithyia, whom Olympian mythographers like Hesiod recast as a daughter of Zeus and Hera.
The Delphian Pythia Boeo attributed to him the introduction of the cult of Apollo and the invention of the epic meter. Many hymns, nomes (simple songs to accompany the circular dance of the chorus), and oracles, attributed to Olen, were preserved in Delos, revered as Apollo's birthplace. "The legend which was especially attributed to him was that of Apollo's sojourn among the Hyperboreans."
Olen, Russia
Olen (Russian: Оле́нь) is a village in Kireyevsky District of Tula Oblast, Russia.
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Coordinates: 53°52′50″N 38°01′05″E / 53.88056°N 38.01806°E
Saara
Saara may refer to:
Places
Germany
Estonia
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Saara, Altenburger Land
Saara is a village and a former municipality in the district of Altenburger Land, Thuringia, Germany.
History
The municipality of Saara was established on January 1, 1996, through the consolidation of the former municipalities Lehndorf (containing the village Saara), Mockern, Podelwitz, Taupadel, and Zehma. Since 31 December 2012, it is part of the municipality Nobitz.
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Sara Forsberg
Sara Maria Forsberg (born 2 May 1994), known professionally as Saara (stylised as SΛΛRΛ or SAARA; formerly Smo, Smoukahontas, or Smokahontas), is a Finnish singer, songwriter, YouTube personality, actress, comedienne, multi-instrumentalist, and impersonator.
Career
Early life
Forsberg was born on 2 May 1994 in Jakobstad, Finland to a Swedish father and Finnish mother. As a child, she lived in Texas and the United Kingdom for a period of time, before moving back to Finland at age six. Her family were members of the Baptist religion. Forsberg studied to become a chef before embarking on a singing career.
2014–2015: YouTube fame and Skiptrace
Since her video What Languages Sound Like to Foreigners was posted on YouTube on 3 March 2014 on her channel Smoukahontas Official (which subsequently has been changed into "Saara"), it was seen over 12 million times. Her ability to mimic accents and speech melodies of different languages, which include Japanese, Estuary English, American with California accent, French, Italian, Arabic, and Spanish, using mainly nonexistent words, was praised by media in a number of countries.
