Thursday, May 2, 2019

Reading Notes: Vainamoinen and the Mistress of Pohjola

-Vainamoinen swims in the open ocean for 9 days and his toenails were falling off
-V exclaims how unlucky he his to live this type of life and how he can't build a house in the water
-an eagle from Lapland spots V and asks V what brought him here
-V says that he was looking for the maid of Pohja and that he fell in the water when someone shot his horse out from underneath him
-the eagle said he remembered when V saved the tree from being cut down for the birds so he would let V climb on his back and fly him wherever
-V mounted himself on the eagle's back
-it flew V to Pohja and then left

"Flight of Vainamoinen" by Kolobova Margarita, 2013. Source: Art Now

"Vainamoinen and the Mistress of Pohjola" from Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot, translated by W. F. Kirby (1907).

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