Air-Maiden

Also known as: the fair daughter of the Thunder-God · Role: daughter of the Thunder-God · First appears: Canto X · The Heroes and the Water-demon

In Canto X · The Heroes and the Water-demon, the Air-Maiden, fair daughter of Äike, sat by a well lamenting the loss of her ring. Kalevide asked what troubled her and plunged into the well to search for it. He emerged with a millstone on his finger and offered it to her, saying “she would not need a larger finger-ring.”

Relationship record

Life events

• Kalevide plunged into the well to search for Air-Maiden’s lost ring.(Canto X · The Heroes and the Water-demon)
  • With: Kalevide
  • “When the hero saw the blue-eyed, golden-haired maiden in tears, he asked the cause of her trouble, and when he heard it he plunged into the well to look for the ring.”
• Kalevide emerged from the well carrying a millstone on his finger and offered it to Air-Maiden as a ring.(Canto X · The Heroes and the Water-demon)
  • With: Kalevide
  • “But he searched in the mud and water for some time, and presently sprang out of the water with the millstone on his finger, which he offered to the maiden, saying that he had not been able to find anything else in the mud, and that she would not need a larger finger-ring.”

Canto X · The Heroes and the Water-demon

• parent: Äike “As the Kalevide proceeded on his journey, he passed a well in a lonely place, where the Air-Maiden, the fair daughter of the Thunder-God, sat bewailing the loss of her ring, which had dropped into it.”
• benefactor: Kalevide “When the hero saw the blue-eyed, golden-haired maiden in tears, he asked the cause of her trouble, and when he heard it he plunged into the well to look for the ring.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Kalevipoeg. Made with Rho MD.