Frost

Also known as: Pakkanen · Family: Pohjola · Role: foster-child · First appears: Runo XXX · Lemminkainen and Tiera · Part 1

In Runo XXX, Louhi sent Frost to freeze Lemminkainen and his boat. Frost froze the bays and lakelets on the first night, but left the lake open; on the second night, he froze Lemminkainen’s vessel and attacked his feet and fingers with ice.

Lemminkainen pushed Frost into a fire and an iron furnace, then seized him in his hands and fists. Frost begged for mercy and promised not to harm him: “Let us understand each other, Nor the one the other injure”. Frost is Puhuri’s son and Louhi’s foster-child.

Relationship record

Life events

• Pohjola's old Mistress ordered Frost to freeze Lemminkainen and his boat.(Runo XXX · Lemminkainen and Tiera · Part 1 · 📍 the lake that borders Pohja)
  • With: Louhi
  • “Then did Pohjola's old Mistress Call the wicked Frost to aid her, On the lake that borders Pohja, On the deep and open water, And she said the words which follow, Thus she spoke and thus commanded: ‘O my Frost, my boy so little, O thou foster-child I nurtured! Go thou forth where I shall bid thee, Where I bid thee, and I send thee. Freeze the boat of that great scoundrel, Boat of lively Lemminkainen, On the lake's extended surface, On the deep and open water, Freeze thou too the master in it, Freeze thou in the boat the rascal, That he nevermore escape thee, In the course of all his lifetime, If myself I do not loose him, If myself I do not free him.’”
• Frost went to the lake and froze its bays and lakelets, but not the open water.(Runo XXX · Lemminkainen and Tiera · Part 1 · 📍 the lake that borders Pohja)
  • “And upon the first night only Froze the bays and froze the lakelets, Hurried forward on the seashore, But the lake was still unfrozen, And the waves were still unstiffened.”
• Frost froze Lemminkainen’s vessel and attacked his feet and fingers with ice.(Runo XXX · Lemminkainen and Tiera · Part 2)
  • With: Lemminkainen
  • “Froze the boat upon the water, Ahti's vessel on the billows; Then he would have frozen Ahti, And in ice his feet would fasten, And he seized upon his fingers, And beneath his toes attacked him.”
• Lemminkainen pushed Frost into a fire and an iron furnace.(Runo XXX · Lemminkainen and Tiera · Part 2)
  • With: Lemminkainen
  • “Angry then was Lemminkainen, Very angry and indignant, Pushed the Frost into the fire, Pushed him in an iron furnace.”
• Lemminkainen seized Frost in his hands and fists.(Runo XXX · Lemminkainen and Tiera · Part 2)
  • With: Lemminkainen
  • “With his hands the Frost then seized he, Grasped him in his fists securely, And he spoke the words which follow, And in words like these expressed him:”
• Frost begged for mercy and promised not to harm Lemminkainen.(Runo XXX · Lemminkainen and Tiera · Part 2)
  • With: Lemminkainen
  • “Whereupon he prayed for mercy, And he spoke the words which follow: “Let us understand each other, Nor the one the other injure, In the course of all our lifetime, While the golden moon is shining.”

Runo XXX · Lemminkainen and Tiera · Part 1

• guardian: Louhi “O my Frost, my boy so little, O thou foster-child I nurtured! Go thou forth where I shall bid thee, Where I bid thee, and I send thee.”

Runo XXX · Lemminkainen and Tiera · Part 2

• parent: Puhuri “Then the Frost, the son of Northwind, Felt that he was near destruction,”
• with Lemminkainen (interaction) “Let us understand each other, Nor the one the other injure, In the course of all our lifetime, While the golden moon is shining.”

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