the boy
Also known as: the Kalevide's cupbearer / the cup-bearer · Role: cupbearer · First appears: Canto X · The Heroes and the Water-demon
In Canto X · The Heroes and the Water-demon, the boy served as Kalevide’s cupbearer and was sent to help carry the money. At Põrgu, the water-demon’s sons tossed him about until they let him rest; he escaped from their palace and returned to daylight. Finding Alevide and the money gone, he agreed to wrestle the water-demon, but Kalevide took up the challenge himself and put the boy in his pocket to grow. Kalevide later told him to wait for the expected messengers while he went to Lake Peipus.
In Canto XVI · The Voyage of the Kalevide, the cupbearer had followed Sulevide on the Island of Fire but did not return. A white bird said he had wandered to a beautiful country behind the snow-mountains, where he was with the water-nymphs, and would not return.
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Life events
- The water-demon’s sons tossed the boy about until they let him rest.(Canto X · The Heroes and the Water-demon · 📍 Põrgu)
- With: the water-demon
- “The boy began to reproach his avaricious friend in his thoughts for having thus sent him to Põrgu without thinking of what might happen to him; but presently the younger demons seized upon him, and began to toss him from one to another like a ball, sometimes from one side of the room to the other, and sometimes up to the ceiling.”
- The boy escaped from the demons’ palace and made his way back to daylight.(Canto X · The Heroes and the Water-demon)
- “Then he drew a cord from his pocket, and pretended to measure the length and breadth of the room. Presently he came to the door, and seized the opportunity to bolt, and was fortunate enough to make his way back to daylight, where the demon had no more power to interfere with him.”
- The boy returned to find Alevide and the money gone, and agreed to wrestle the water-demon.(Canto X · The Heroes and the Water-demon)
- With: the water-demon Alevide
- “When the boy reached the place where he had left the Alevide, he found that both his friend and the money had disappeared. Presently the water-demon came up, and asked him jestingly whether he had burnt himself, or whether he had been stung by a gadfly, that he ran away like that, instead of helping him to carry the heavy money-bags. He then proposed that they should look for a good place where they might wrestle. He thought he could easily overcome the boy by strength, if not by craft, and the boy consented.”
- Kalevide put the boy in his pocket to grow and took the water-demon’s challenge himself.(Canto X · The Heroes and the Water-demon)
- With: Kalevide
- “So the Kalevide, laughing, stuck the boy in his trouser-pocket to grow, and took over the challenge himself, and they all went to a mountain where the contest was to take place;”
- Kalevide ordered the boy to wait for the expected messengers while he went to Lake Peipus.(Canto X · The Heroes and the Water-demon)
- With: Kalevide
- “Presently the Kalevide felt in his pocket, and pulled out the boy, with whom he began to jest; but soon their conversation became more serious, and the Kalevide ordered him to wait for the expected messengers, while he himself should proceed to Lake Peipus, where he had important business.”
- The cupbearer, who had followed Sulevide on the Island of Fire, did not return: a white bird said he had wandered away to a beautiful country behind the snow-mountains, with the water-nymphs.(Canto XVI · The Voyage of the Kalevide)
Canto X · The Heroes and the Water-demon
- employer: Kalevide “But the hero knew that it was only a trick to get him away from the hat, so he refused to budge, but sent the Kalevide's cupbearer, the smallest of the company, to help to carry the money.”
- enemies with the water-demon “Then the water-demons began to titter, and to whisper to each other in their own language, which sounded just like Lettish, and which their guest could not understand. The boy began to reproach his avaricious friend in his thoughts for having thus sent him to Põrgu without thinking of what might happen to him; but presently the younger demons seized upon him, and began to toss him from one to another like a ball, sometimes from one side of the room to the other, and sometimes up to the ceiling.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Kalevipoeg. Made with Rho MD.