Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Reading Notes: Vainamoinen Goes Fishing

-the news spread of the maiden who perished
-Vainamoinen deeply mourned her loss
-he went to a lake and asked Untamo the sleeper where swell the fair maidens
-Untamo answered near the cloud-encompassed headband, near the ever misty island...
-V checked his fishing gear and made his way there in his boat
-then he began fishing in the cape with clouds encompassed and near the ever misty island
-he caught a salmon-trout early in the morning
-he remarked how it was unlike any fish he had ever seen
-he drew his knife with the intention of cutting it up and eating it for breakfast
-the fish sprang to life and jumped from the boat
-it said, "surely I haven't come here in the form of a salmon in order to become your breakfast."

Vainamoinen. Source: Alchetron

"Vainamoinen Goes Fishing" from Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot, translated by W. F. Kirby (1907).

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