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)
1Father Mikko
2The World's Creation and the Birth of Wainamoinen
3The Planting of Trees
4Wainamoinen and Youkahainen
5Aino's Fate
6Wainamoinen's Search for Aino
7Wainamoinen's Unlucky Journey
8Wainamoinen's Rescue
9The Rainbow Maiden
10Ilmarinen Forges the Sampo
11Lemminkainen and Kyllikki
12Kyllikki's Broken Vow
13Lemminkainen's Second Wooing
14Lemminkainen's Death
15Lemminkainen's Restoration
16Wainamoinen's Boat-Building
17Wainamoinen Finds the Lost Words
18The Rival Suitors
19Ilmarinen's Wooing
20The Brewing of Beer
21Ilmarinen's Wedding Feast
22The Origon of the Serpent
23The Unwelcome Guest
24The Isle of Refuge
25The Frost Fiend
26Kullervo's Birth
27Kullervo and Ilmarinen's Wife
28Kullervo's Life and Death
29Ilmarinen's Bride of Gold
30Ilmarinen's Fruitless Wooing
31Wainamoinen's Expedition and the Birth of the Kantele (Harp)
32The Capture of the Sampo
33The Sampo is Lost in the Sea
34The Birth of the Second Kantele
35Louhi Attempts Revenge
36Louhi Steals the Sun, the Moon, and Fire
37The Restoration of the Sun and Moon
38Mariata and Wainamoinen's Departure
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