Sampsa Pellervoinen

Also known as: Pellervoinen / Sampsa · Family: Kalevala · Role: timber seeker · First appears: Runo XVI · Väinämöinen in Tuonela · Part 1

Life events

• Pellervoinen, also called Sampsa, sowed seeds across the barren country.(Runo II · Väinämöinen's Sowing · Part 1)
  • “Pellervoinen, earth-begotten, Sampsa, youth of smallest stature, Came to sow the barren country, Thickly scattering seeds around him.”
• Pellervoinen, also called Sampsa, sowed seeds across the barren country.(Runo II · Väinämöinen's Sowing · Part 1)
  • “Pellervoinen, earth-begotten, Sampsa, youth of smallest stature, Came to sow the barren country, Thickly scattering seeds around him.”
• Väinämöinen set Sampsa Pellervoinen to seek timber for his boat.(Runo XVI · Väinämöinen in Tuonela · Part 1)
  • With: Väinämöinen
  • “Pellervoinen, earth-begotten, Sampsa, youth of smallest stature, He shall seek for timber for him, And shall seek an oak-tree for him.”
• Sampsa felled an oak and fashioned it into a keel and planks for Väinämöinen’s vessel.(Runo XVI · Väinämöinen in Tuonela · Part 1)
  • “Speedily he felled the oak-tree, And the beauteous tree had fallen.”

Runo XVI · Väinämöinen in Tuonela · Part 1

• protégé: Väinämöinen “Pellervoinen, earth-begotten, Sampsa, youth of smallest stature, He shall seek for timber for him, And shall seek an oak-tree for him. For the boat of Väinämöinen, And a keel to suit the minstrel.”

Also listed in Kalevala — Minor Figures

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