Marjatta

Also known as: Marjatta the petted damsel · Role: maiden · First appears: Runo L · Marjatta · Part 1

In Runo L, Marjatta lives with her father and mother and has Piltti as her servant. After a berry enters her mouth and falls into her stomach, she becomes pregnant. She gives birth to a son in a stable: “And a little boy was born her, And a sinless child was given.”

When her infant vanishes from her lap, Marjatta searches the marshes, finds him there, and brings him home.

Relationship record

Life events

• Marjatta becomes pregnant after a berry enters her mouth and drops into her stomach.(Runo L · Marjatta · Part 1)
  • “Marjatta the petted damsel, After this had chanced grew pregnant, And it soon increased upon her, And her burden soon was heavy.”
• Marjatta gave birth to a son in the stable.(Runo L · Marjatta · Part 2 · 📍 stable)
  • With: Son of Marjatta
  • “Marjatta the hapless maiden, She, the holy little maiden, Bathed her in a bath sufficient, Till she had relieved her suffering, And a little boy was born her, And a sinless child was given, On the hay in horses' stable, On the hay in horses' manger.”
• Marjatta's infant son vanished from her lap.(Runo L · Marjatta · Part 2)
  • With: Son of Marjatta
  • “On her knees she laid the infant, On her lap she laid the infant, And began to brush his hair straight, And began to smooth his hair down, When from off her knees he vanished, From her lap the infant vanished.”
• Marjatta found her hidden infant in the marshes and brought him home.(Runo L · Marjatta · Part 3 · 📍 the marshes)
  • With: Son of Marjatta
  • “Marjatta the hapless maiden Sought her infant in the marshes, In the swamps her son discovered, And she brought him home in triumph.”

Runo L · Marjatta · Part 1

• parent: Marjatta's father “In the home of her great father, In her tender mother's dwelling,”
• parent: Marjatta's mother “In the home of her great father, In her tender mother's dwelling,”

Runo L · Marjatta · Part 2

• servant: Piltti “O my little damsel Piltti, Thou the best of all my handmaids,”
• child: Son of Marjatta “And a little boy was born her, And a sinless child was given,”

Runo L · Marjatta · Part 3

• child: Son of Marjatta (The son is also called Floweret by his mother and Sluggard by the strangers.) “Then the son of our Marjatta Grew into a youth most beauteous,”

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Extracted from the original text of Kalevala. Made with Rho MD.