About this book
One dark winter's day in the north of Finland, Father Mikko seeks shelter in an isolated cabin till a storm abates. After dinner the family sit around the fire, and the daughter asks him to tell them "all the stories he had ever heard from the very beginning of the world all the way down", and so the book begins. In the words of the author "If this little volume may in any degree awake some interest in the Finnish people its author will be amply satisfied, and its end will have been attained." ( Annise)
Chapters (38)
1 Father Mikko
2 The World's Creation and the Birth of Wainamoinen
3 The Planting of Trees
4 Wainamoinen and Youkahainen
5 Aino's Fate
6 Wainamoinen's Search for Aino
7 Wainamoinen's Unlucky Journey
8 Wainamoinen's Rescue
9 The Rainbow Maiden
10 Ilmarinen Forges the Sampo
11 Lemminkainen and Kyllikki
12 Kyllikki's Broken Vow
13 Lemminkainen's Second Wooing
14 Lemminkainen's Death
15 Lemminkainen's Restoration
16 Wainamoinen's Boat-Building
17 Wainamoinen Finds the Lost Words
18 The Rival Suitors
19 Ilmarinen's Wooing
20 The Brewing of Beer
21 Ilmarinen's Wedding Feast
22 The Origon of the Serpent
23 The Unwelcome Guest
24 The Isle of Refuge
25 The Frost Fiend
26 Kullervo's Birth
27 Kullervo and Ilmarinen's Wife
28 Kullervo's Life and Death
29 Ilmarinen's Bride of Gold
30 Ilmarinen's Fruitless Wooing
31 Wainamoinen's Expedition and the Birth of the Kantele (Harp)
32 The Capture of the Sampo
33 The Sampo is Lost in the Sea
34 The Birth of the Second Kantele
35 Louhi Attempts Revenge
36 Louhi Steals the Sun, the Moon, and Fire
37 The Restoration of the Sun and Moon
38 Mariata and Wainamoinen's Departure
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