Tiera

Also known as: Kuura · Family: Kalevala · Role: hero · First appears: Runo XXX · Lemminkainen and Tiera · Part 1

In Runo XXX, Tiera, also called Kuura, is at his homestead when Lemminkainen asks him to join a battle. Though Tiera has recently taken a young wife and is said to have made a lifelong compact, he agrees to go, setting his spear with Lemminkainen’s and making ready for battle. Lemminkainen calls him “faithful comrade” and his most loved and dearest friend.

Relationship record

Life events

• Lemminkainen asked Tiera to join him in battle, and Tiera agreed to go.(Runo XXX · Lemminkainen and Tiera · Part 1 · 📍 Tiera's homestead)
  • With: Lemminkainen
  • “Then his spear was placed by Tiera With the other spears of Ahti, And he went and made him ready Swift to join in Ahti's battle.”

Runo XXX · Lemminkainen and Tiera · Part 1

• friends with Lemminkainen “O my Tiera, faithful comrade, Of my friends most loved and dearest, Thinkest thou on days departed, On the life we lived aforetime,”
• parent: Tiera's father “At the window worked the father, And a spear-shaft he was carving; By the threshold stood the mother, Busy as she churned the butter; At the door the ruddy brothers, And they wrought a sledge's framework; At the bridge-end stood the sisters, And the clothes they there were wringing.”
• parent: Tiera's mother “At the window worked the father, And a spear-shaft he was carving; By the threshold stood the mother, Busy as she churned the butter; At the door the ruddy brothers, And they wrought a sledge's framework; At the bridge-end stood the sisters, And the clothes they there were wringing.”
• married with Tiera's young wife “Tiera cannot go to battle, Nor may strike with spear in warfare. Other duties call for Tiera, He has made a lifelong compact, For a young wife has he taken As the mistress of his household, But untouched is she at present, Uncaressed is still her bosom.”

Runo XXX · Lemminkainen and Tiera · Part 2

• friends with Lemminkainen “Tiera too, the other hero, Followed in his comrade's footsteps.”

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