The Kalevipoeg — Chronicle
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Canto I · The Marriages of Salme and Linda · Part 1 · 📍 [[the province of Lääne]] · One Sunday
The hen had grown into the fair maiden Salme; the egg had given birth to a second maiden, Linda, while the poor crow had become an orphan girl, a maid-of-all-work, to carry wood to the stove and to bend under the weight of water-pails from the well.
Canto I · The Marriages of Salme and Linda · Part 1
The hen had grown into the fair maiden Salme; the egg had given birth to a second maiden, Linda, while the poor crow had become an orphan girl, a maid-of-all-work, to carry wood to the stove and to bend under the weight of water-pails from the well.
Canto I · The Marriages of Salme and Linda · Part 1
"Him I will accept as lover, Give the Star my hand in marriage, And will prove his faithful consort.
Canto I · The Marriages of Salme and Linda · Part 2
Starry youth and maiden Salme, Thus their nuptials held in rapture.
Canto I · The Marriages of Salme and Linda · Part 2 · In the midst of these joyous festivities
In the midst of these joyous festivities, the Moon and then the Sun returned in greater state than before to seek the hand of Linda, who was resting on a couch in the bathroom; but she also refused them both, almost in the same terms as her sister had done; and they retired sorrowfully.
Canto I · The Marriages of Salme and Linda · Part 2 · In the midst of these joyous festivities
In the midst of these joyous festivities, the Moon and then the Sun returned in greater state than before to seek the hand of Linda, who was resting on a couch in the bathroom; but she also refused them both, almost in the same terms as her sister had done; and they retired sorrowfully.
Canto I · The Marriages of Salme and Linda · Part 2 · now
A third suitor, the Lord of the Waters, now appeared; but Linda replied that the roaring of the waves was terrible, and the depth of the sea was awful; that the brooks only gave a scanty supply of water, and the river-floods were devastating.
Canto I · The Marriages of Salme and Linda · Part 2
He was followed by the Wind, who rode the Horse of the Tempest, and, like all the other suitors, was attended by a cavalcade of fifty horses and sixty grooms; and he too asked the hand of Linda. But she replied that a delicate girl could never take pleasure in the howling of the wind and the raging of the tempest.
Canto I · The Marriages of Salme and Linda · Part 2 · now
Prince of Kungla Linda the king
Another suitor for the hand of Linda now appeared in the person of the Prince of Kungla. All the guests, and Linda's own sisters, approved of this suitor. But Linda declared that she could not think of accepting him; for the king, his father, had wicked daughters, who would treat a stranger unkindly.
Canto I · The Marriages of Salme and Linda · Part 2 · now
Youth of the Stars Salme the widow
But now the Youth of the Stars could delay no longer, and Salme took an affecting farewell of her foster-mother and all her kith and kin, declaring that she would now be hidden behind the clouds, or wandering through the heavens transformed into a star. Then she mounted her sledge, and again bade her foster-mother a last and eternal farewell.
Canto I · The Marriages of Salme and Linda · Part 2 · After Salme's departure
After Salme's departure, the wedding-festival of Linda was kept up for some time, and when Kalev finally drove off with her in her sledge, she bade farewell to her foster-mother; but Kalev reminded her that she had forgotten the moon before the house, who was her father; the sun before the storehouse, who was her old uncle; and the birch-tree before the window, who was her brother, besides her cousins in the wood.
Canto II · The Death of Kalev · on a fourth journey
[[Wind-Magician]] [[the old Soothsayer from Finland]] Kalev
He besought their aid, but they replied with one voice that what the drought had parched up, the moonlight blanched, and the stars withered, could never bloom again.
Canto II · The Death of Kalev · before the beetle returned from his fruitless journey
And before the beetle returned from his fruitless journey the mighty Kalev had expired.
Canto II · The Death of Kalev · 📍 [[Ülemiste järv]] · for one month after another till three months had passed, and the fourth was far advanced
She heaped a cairn of stones over his tomb, which formed the hill on which the Cathedral of Revel now stands. One day she was carrying a great stone to the cairn, but found herself too weak, and let it fall. She sat down on it, and lamented her sad fate, and her tears formed the lake called "Ülemiste järv," the Upper Lake, beside which the huge stone block may still be seen.
Canto II · The Death of Kalev · 📍 [[the bathroom]] · After this
After this, Linda felt her time approaching, and she retired to the bathroom, and called upon the gods to aid her. Ukko and Rõugutaja both attended at her call, and one brought a bundle of straw, and the other pillows, and they made her up a soft bed; nor was it long before Kalev's posthumous son saw the light.
Canto II · The Death of Kalev · 📍 [[Kalev's house]] · After the death of Kalev
Last of all came a mighty wind-sorcerer from Finland, calling himself Kalev's cousin; and when she refused him also, he vowed revenge.
Canto II · The Death of Kalev
Last of all came a mighty wind-sorcerer from Finland, calling himself Kalev's cousin; and when she refused him also, he vowed revenge.
Canto II · The Death of Kalev · 📍 [[Kalev's house]] · Linda was no longer tormented by suitors
Linda was no longer tormented by suitors, but the magician whom she had discarded recommended all his friends not to seek a wife in Kalev's house
Canto III · The Fate of Linda · One hot day
Äike, the Thunder-God, was driving his brazen-wheeled chariot over the iron bridges of the sky, and as he thundered above, the sparks flew from the wheels, and he hurled down flash after flash of lightning from his strong right hand against a company of wicked demons of the air, who plunged from the rocks into the sea, dodged the thunderbolts among the waves, and mocked and insulted the god. The hero was enraged at their audacity, and plunging into the water, dragged them from their hiding-places like crabs, and filled a whole sack with them.
Canto III · The Fate of Linda · Just as the sorcerer was about to push off from the shore
the Finnish sorcerer Linda Äike
Just as the sorcerer was about to push off from the shore, Pikker darted a bolt from the clouds. His chariot thundered over the iron bridges of the sky, scattering flames around it, and the sorcerer was struck down senseless. Linda fled; but the gods spared her further sorrow and outrage by transforming her into a rock on Mount Iru.
Canto III · The Fate of Linda · 📍 [[Mount Iru]]
Just as the sorcerer was about to push off from the shore, Pikker darted a bolt from the clouds. His chariot thundered over the iron bridges of the sky, scattering flames around it, and the sorcerer was struck down senseless. Linda fled; but the gods spared her further sorrow and outrage by transforming her into a rock on Mount Iru.
Canto III · The Fate of Linda · As they passed through the pine forest which was called the King's Wood
As they passed through the pine forest which was called the King's Wood, the eldest brother sat down under a tree and began to sing a song. He sang till the leaves on the trees shone brighter than ever, and the needles on the fir-trees turned to silken tassels, and the fir-cones gleamed purple in the sunshine. Acorns sprouted on the oaks, tender catkins on the birch-trees, and other trees were covered with sweet-scented snow-white flowers, which shone in the sunshine and glimmered in the moonlight, while the woods re-echoed with his singing, and the tones were heard far over the heaths and meadows, and the daughter of the king of Kungla wept tears of rapture.
Canto III · The Fate of Linda
The second brother sat down in the birch-wood under a weeping birch-tree, and began to sing a song. As he sang, the buds unfolded and the flowers bloomed, the golden ears of corn swelled, and the apples reddened, the kernels formed in the nuts, the cherries ripened, red berries grew on the hills and blue berries in the marshes, while black berries grew at the edges of the swamps, yellow ones on the mossy hillocks, and the elder-trees were covered with rich purple grapes, while the woods re-echoed with the song, and its notes spread far over the heaths and meadows till the little water-nymphs shed tears of rapture.
Canto III · The Fate of Linda · Evening now approached
Kalevide Linda the Finnish sorcerer
The youngest went down to the beach, where he found such traces of his mother's presence that he concluded that she had been carried off by her disappointed suitor, the Finnish sorcerer.
Canto IV · The Island Maiden
but when the maiden heard that he was the son of Kalev and Linda, she was seized with terror, and her foot slipping she fell from the cliff into the sea.
Canto IV · The Island Maiden
the islander's wife the islander
The father's cry of despair fully roused the mother, who sprang up, and ran down to the shore, only to learn that her daughter was lost.
Canto IV · The Island Maiden
the islander's wife the islander
Then the mother took a rake with a long copper handle, and the father took his net, and with them they sought for their daughter's body at the bottom of the sea.
Canto IV · The Island Maiden
the island maiden the man of copper
Then the man of copper offered her the weapons if she would take him as her husband, but she refused, saying that she was the daughter of a landsman, and preferred a husband from the village on the land.
Canto IV · The Island Maiden
He laughed scornfully; her foot slipped, and she sank into the sea.
Canto IV · The Island Maiden
the island maiden the islander's wife the islander
Her father and mother came to seek her, and found only her ornaments scattered on the beach. They called her by her name, and implored her to go home with them; but she answered that she could not, for she was weighed down by the water; and she related to them her adventure with the copper man.
Canto V · The Kalevide and the Finnish Sorcerer
the islander the islander's wife the island maiden
Meantime the islander and his wife, not being able to find their daughter, returned home weeping, and planted the oak and the fir in the field where their daughter used to swing in the evening, in remembrance of her.
Canto V · The Kalevide and the Finnish Sorcerer
the islander the islander's wife
Then they went to look in the helmet where they had put the egg; but it was cold and damp, so the mother put the egg in the warm sun by day, and nursed it in her bosom at night.
Canto V · The Kalevide and the Finnish Sorcerer
the islander the islander's wife
Next they visited the fish, which prayed for its liberty, and they restored it to the sea.
Canto V · The Kalevide and the Finnish Sorcerer · one day
the islander the islander's wife
The oak and fir now reached the clouds; and a young eagle was hatched from the egg, which the mother tended; but one day it escaped and flew away.
Canto V · The Kalevide and the Finnish Sorcerer · 📍 [[Finland]] · next morning
The Kalevide had only intended to take a short nap, but he was so weary that he slept all through the day and night, and did not awake till sunrise next morning. When he awoke, he set off at once in search of his mother and the sorcerer into the interior of the country.
Canto V · The Kalevide and the Finnish Sorcerer
He hurriedly took a handful of feathers from his bosom, and blew them from him with a few magic words, and lo! they became an armed host of warriors,—thousands of them, both on foot and on horseback. They rushed upon the son of Kalev like a swarm of gnats or bees; but he laid about him with his club as if he was threshing, and beat them down, horse and man together, on all sides, like drops of hail or rain.
Canto V · The Kalevide and the Finnish Sorcerer
But the Kalevide paid no attention to his speech, and, after a few angry words, he smashed his head with his club.
Canto V · The Kalevide and the Finnish Sorcerer · At last
But he found not his mother, and regretted that he had killed the sorcerer, who might have helped him. At last, wearied out with his own violence, he threw himself on a couch, and wept himself to sleep. He had a vision of his mother in her youth and beauty, swinging with her companions, and awoke, convinced that she was really dead.
Canto VI · The Kalevide and the Sword-smiths · on the third day
The Kalevide mourned two days for his mother, but on the third day he began to get over his grief, and determined, before returning home, to visit a famous smith of Finland, and to provide himself with a good sword.
Canto VI · The Kalevide and the Sword-smiths
the old woman on the road to the smithy Kalevide
He sprang forward with renewed energy and soon found himself in the open country, where he encountered an old woman, who gave him minute instructions for finding his way to the smithy, which was three days' journey off.
Canto VI · The Kalevide and the Sword-smiths
The youths brought in an armful of the very best, and the Kalevide chose a huge sword, which he brandished like a reed in his right hand, and then brought down on the anvil. The sword cut deep into the iron, and the blade did not fly, but the sharp edge was somewhat blunted.
Canto VI · The Kalevide and the Sword-smiths
It had been bespoken by Kalev himself, but he had not lived till the work was completed.
Canto VI · The Kalevide and the Sword-smiths
Then the hero joyfully expressed his thanks to the smith for forging such a splendid sword, and promised to bring him the full price demanded upon his return to Esthonia.
Canto VI · The Kalevide and the Sword-smiths · for seven days
Kalevide the eldest son of the smith
The Kalevide had lost his senses like the rest, and told the whole story of his adventure on the island and the drowning of the maiden. Upon this, the eldest son of the smith, his father's pride and joy, sprang forward, denouncing him for his aspersions on the maiden's honour. The Kalevide defied him, maintaining the truth of the story, and from words they soon came to blows; and, before any one could comprehend what was going on or interfere, the Kalevide drew the sword from its sheath and struck off the head of his adversary before the face of his father, mother, and brothers, the hero thus loading himself with a second great crime.
Canto VI · The Kalevide and the Sword-smiths
But the drunken giant advanced against them with his sword, defying them to the combat; and the smith, recognising the hopelessness of any attempt against him, cried to his sons to let him pass and leave vengeance to the gods, cursing him like a mad dog, and calling on the sword itself to avenge the crime.
Canto VI · The Kalevide and the Sword-smiths
But the Kalevide seemed to hear nothing, and staggered away from the house through the wood along the road till he came to a high waterfall. He followed the course of the stream some distance till he found a resting-place, where he laid down, and snored till the whole neighbourhood shook, and people asked in fear whether enemies had invaded the land and a battle was in progress.
Canto VI · The Kalevide and the Sword-smiths
The oak which the islander had planted sprang up, first as a small tree, but it grew so rapidly that it reached the clouds, and almost touched the sun. The sun and moon were hidden, the windows darkened, and all the country around made dismal by the shadow of its branches.
Canto VI · The Kalevide and the Sword-smiths
the islander the islander's wife the dwarf no larger than Kalev's thumb
The islander asked the dwarf if he would fell the oak-tree, and he consented at once, on condition that he should be released from his captivity; he was also given a dish of pure gold.
Canto VI · The Kalevide and the Sword-smiths · for three days
the dwarf no larger than Kalev's thumb
Having thus become a giant, he began to hew at the tree, and he hewed at it for three days, till it fell, covering half the island and half the sea with its branches.
Canto VII · The Return of the Kalevide · as he approached the shores of Esthonia
But as he approached the shores of Esthonia, the fresh sea-breeze dispelled the mists that still clouded his memory, and the blood-stained sword and the splashes of blood on his clothes bore witness of the murder he had committed.
Canto VII · The Return of the Kalevide · 📍 [[Mount Iru]] · Next morning
Next morning the Kalevide reached the shore, made fast the boat, and went homewards; but as he passed Mount Iru, where the form of his mother stood, his steps were arrested by the sweet singing of her unseen spirit in the wind. She sang how the young eagle had soared from the nest in youthful innocence, and had returned stained with crime. He knew now that his mother was dead, and realised more fully the two crimes which weighed upon his soul—the one committed thoughtlessly and without evil intent, and the other without his knowledge, when he was not master of himself.
Canto VII · The Return of the Kalevide · when he reached home
Kalevide the Kalevide's eldest brother the Kalevide's second brother
He hastened on, and when he reached home his brothers, who had long mourned him as dead, received him with open arms.
Canto VII · The Return of the Kalevide · Then
the Kalevide's eldest brother the Kalevide's second brother Kalevide
Then the eldest brother remarked that they knew not what had become of their mother, but their parents were no more, and they must shift for themselves, so he proposed a trial to decide which of the three should rule as king in the land. The second brother agreed, and the third proposed that the trial should take place next day, and be decided according to the will of Taara.
Canto VII · The Return of the Kalevide · 📍 [[his father's cairn]] · In the evening, before twilight had quite given way to night
In the evening, before twilight had quite given way to night, the youngest son took his handkerchief, which was wet with tears, and climbed up his father's cairn. And his father asked from below:
Canto VIII · The Contest and Parting of the Brothers · on the third day
Kalevide the Kalevide's eldest brother the Kalevide's second brother
It was arranged that whoever should cast his stone across the lake to the firm ground opposite should be adjudged his father's heir, and the other two should wander forth to seek their fortunes in other lands.
Canto VIII · The Contest and Parting of the Brothers
Kalevide the Kalevide's eldest brother the Kalevide's second brother
Then the eldest brother declared that the gods had plainly assigned the kingdom to the youngest, and that the others must now bathe him and adorn him as king.
Canto VIII · The Contest and Parting of the Brothers · After this
Kalevide the Kalevide's eldest brother the Kalevide's second brother
After this the three brothers took an affectionate leave of each other, and the two elder ones wandered cheerfully away.
Canto VIII · The Contest and Parting of the Brothers · One hot noonday
The sweat ran from his forehead and sank into the earth, whence arose a healing and strengthening spring of wonderful virtues.
Canto IX · Rumours of War · 📍 [[Esthonia]]
Kalevide messenger
But he had scarcely closed his eyes before a messenger arrived from the elders of Esthonia, announcing that war had broken out, and that a hostile army was ravaging the country.
Canto X · The Heroes and the Water-demon · 📍 [[Mustapall]]
The demon, who had lived under the water for many years, and did not like to be turned out of his comfortable home, offered him a reward to desist. So the Alevide asked him to fill his old felt hat for him with bright silver coins; which he promised to do on the morrow
Canto X · The Heroes and the Water-demon · during the night
Then the demon dived back into the water, while the son of Alev, who was a cousin of the Kalevide, got a friend to help him to dig a hole in the ground during the night, a fathom in depth and broad at the bottom, but with an opening at the top just wide enough for the top of the hat to fit into; but the hat was cut at the sides, so that the heavy money should fall through into the pit.
Canto X · The Heroes and the Water-demon · Before daybreak
Before daybreak the stupid demon brought a lapful of roubles, which he poured into the hat. He brought a second and a third, and afterwards brought money by the hogshead, but the hat still remained empty. Presently his coffers, purses, and pockets were all exhausted.
Canto X · The Heroes and the Water-demon · 📍 [[Põrgu]]
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.
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.
Canto X · The Heroes and the Water-demon
the boy 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.
Canto X · The Heroes and the Water-demon
Then they engaged in a wrestling match, and the Kalevide soon lifted the demon from his feet and flung him into the air. When he came to the ground, he rolled seven versts, and then fell down a little hill among the bushes, where he lay stunned for seven days, hardly able to open his eyes or lift his head, or even to move a limb.
Canto X · The Heroes and the Water-demon
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.
Canto X · The Heroes and the Water-demon
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.
Canto X · The Heroes and the Water-demon
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 XI · The Loss of the Sword · 📍 [[Lake Peipus]] · to-day
But to-day he was in a bad humour, and blew a tremendous storm against the son of Kalev.
Canto XI · The Loss of the Sword · 📍 [[Lake Peipus]]
So he scattered rowan-leaves, thyme, fern, and other magic herbs over the sword, and at last it inclined towards the sorcerer, and he took it in his arms. The huge weapon weighed him to the ground, and he was only able to struggle along painfully under its weight, step by step, with the sweat pouring from his face; but still he would not relinquish his booty. Presently he came to the brook Käpä, and jumped over it; but the sword slipped from his arm, and sank in the mud in the deepest place.
Canto XI · The Loss of the Sword · 📍 [[the brook]]
The sword reminded the Kalevide of the terrible murder in Finland, which it declared it could never forget, and the hero abandoned the weapon to its sweet repose, saying that he relied on his own strength to overcome his enemies in battle.
Canto XI · The Loss of the Sword · 📍 [[a hazel thicket]]
Here his foot touched something soft, which he found to be a man of about the stature of our present race, who was quaking with fear and besought his protection. The Kalevide took him up kindly by the hair, and dropped him into his wallet, where he fell as down a deep precipice, till he came to a stop among the bread and herrings at the bottom.
Canto XI · The Loss of the Sword · Yesterday evening
the old woman, mother of the two giants the man
Presently I came to a footpath which led me to a poor hut, where I thought to find a night's lodging. I came into a great empty room, where an old woman was standing by the hearth preparing supper. She was cooking half a pig in a great pot with peas, and kindly gave me a cupful, but told me to eat my supper quick. As soon as I had finished, she told me to hide among the straw which she had laid under the table, and to lie as still as a mouse, for if I only moved a finger after her sons returned, they would be sure to kill me.
Canto XI · The Loss of the Sword
but if the man himself who had brought the sword there should come that way, then the sword was to cut off both his feet. By this he meant the sorcerer, but he expressed himself ambiguously.
Canto XII · The Fight with the Sorcerer's Sons
Kalevide the sorcerer's three sons
The Kalevide tried at first to remonstrate with his assailants, but as they continued to annoy him he rushed upon them with his club.
Canto XII · The Fight with the Sorcerer's Sons
Kalevide the sorcerer's three sons
The hero at once took the hint, and, instead of striking with the flat side of the planks, began to strike with the sharp edges, and his enemies soon fled before him, howling like wolves.
Canto XII · The Fight with the Sorcerer's Sons
He was much grieved at the untimely death of his protégé, and dug him a grave with his own hands, round which he planted berry-bearing bushes.
Canto XII · The Fight with the Sorcerer's Sons
While he was asleep, the sorcerer himself crept to his side, and by his spells and incantations, and the use of magic herbs, threw him into a deep slumber, which lasted for days and nights.
Canto XII · The Fight with the Sorcerer's Sons · 📍 [[Lake Peipus]] · On the following morning
On the following morning the Kalevide awoke from his sleep. He knew that the vision of the smithy was a dream, but he was not aware that he had slept for seven weeks without intermission.
Canto XII · The Fight with the Sorcerer's Sons · 📍 [[Lake Peipus]]
When he came to the lake, he heard a boy shouting for help. It was a herd-boy, whose favourite lamb was being carried off by a wolf. He killed the wolf with a stone,
Canto XII · The Fight with the Sorcerer's Sons · 📍 [[Lake Peipus]]
Presently he decided to build a bridge across the "puddle;" and built it out into the lake for perhaps a couple of miles, when a great storm arose and swept away the unfinished structure.
Canto XII · The Fight with the Sorcerer's Sons · one evening
He sang sad songs, till at length the wood-nymph took compassion on him, and sang to him one evening from the summit of an oak-tree, telling him that good luck would be his in the morning.
Canto XII · The Fight with the Sorcerer's Sons · Next morning
Next morning he found a lark's egg hidden among leaves, which he hid in his bosom next his heart wrapped in wool and a strip of linen.
Canto XIII · The Kalevide's First Journey to Hades · in the morning
When he awoke in the morning, a magpie informed him for the first time that the sorcerer had kept him in a magic sleep for seven weeks, and he quickened his pace.
Canto XIII · The Kalevide's First Journey to Hades
The hero dipped his hands in the dark liquid, and felt his strength redoubled. He pushed against the door again, and the door and door-posts too came thundering to the ground.
Canto XIII · The Kalevide's First Journey to Hades
The hero dipped his hands in the dark liquid, and felt his strength redoubled. He pushed against the door again, and the door and door-posts too came thundering to the ground.
Canto XIII · The Kalevide's First Journey to Hades
She began at once to grow taller, ell after ell, till she grew fully as tall as the son of Kalev himself.
Canto XIII · The Kalevide's First Journey to Hades
Then the Kalevide took the hat from her head and set it on his own, wishing to become as small as she had been. His stature immediately sank, ell after ell, till he was reduced to the size of an ordinary man.
Canto XIII · The Kalevide's First Journey to Hades
The young giantess took back the hat, and wished to resume her former stature, which accordingly befell.
Canto XIV · The Palace of Sarvik · Part 1 · 📍 [[the kitchen]]
the old woman in Sarvik's palace
The sisters were sorry to see the dawn of day, though they were no longer obliged to spin and weave, for the old woman was locked up in the kitchen, and could not interfere with them.
Canto XIV · The Palace of Sarvik · Part 1 · as children
the eldest sister the second sister the youngest sister Kalevide
We, poor creatures, were carried away as children from a country a thousand versts distant, and have had to do the hardest work early and late.
Canto XIV · The Palace of Sarvik · Part 1
Old Sarvik selects his workmen and maids from this kingdom, and they are forced to follow him, and perform hard tasks for him in the iron and copper chambers;
Canto XIV · The Palace of Sarvik · Part 2 · 📍 [[Põrgu]]
the eldest sister the second sister Kalevide Sarvik
The eldest sister hastened to change these glasses, while the second secured the wishing-rod.
Canto XIV · The Palace of Sarvik · Part 2 · 📍 [[Põrgu]]
He grasped Sarvik by the hair, raised him up ten fathoms, and then rammed him into the ground like a pointed stake, first to the calves, then to the knees, and then to the loins, so that he could not move. He then grasped the chain to bind him, but suddenly Sarvik grew smaller and smaller, and finally sank into the ground out of sight, like a stone in a swamp.
Canto XIV · The Palace of Sarvik · Part 2 · 📍 [[Põrgu]]
Kalevide the eldest sister the second sister the youngest sister
but his present care was to release the sisters from their long captivity.
Canto XIV · The Palace of Sarvik · Part 2 · 📍 [[Põrgu]]
These the hero fanned into a flame, into which he contemptuously tossed the hat, which was immediately consumed.
Canto XV · The Marriage of the Sisters
the youngest sister Tühi Kalevide
Then the youngest sister took the wishing-rod, and called upon it to flood the whole country, a bridge rising before them for the hero, while water flowed behind between him and his enemies.
Canto XV · The Marriage of the Sisters
And upon this Tühi and his seventy people decamped in the greatest haste, as if they had been on fire, or as if they were pursued by gadflies.
Canto XV · The Marriage of the Sisters
Strong as was the Kalevide, his back was weary and chafed with his heavy load, and he threw it off and lay down to rest; but while he slept he was in danger of being carried away by a sudden flood from the mountains, raised against him by a sorceress.
Canto XV · The Marriage of the Sisters
Kalevide Alevide Sulevide the youngest sister the eldest sister the second sister
When the Kalevide learned that he had lost seven weeks in a magic sleep, he gave the three sisters to the charge of the son of Alev, who married the youngest. The son of Sulev married the eldest, but the second sister found no lover, and while the others were talking together of their wedded happiness she stole apart weeping;
Canto XV · The Marriage of the Sisters
the second sister the famous sorcerer Alevide Sulevide
and at length she was carried away by a famous sorcerer, and her strong brothers-in-law went in search of her.
Canto XV · The Marriage of the Sisters · On the third evening
Alevide Sulevide the second sister the famous sorcerer
They rushed across, broke the locks, and burst open the doors, slew the sorcerer, released the captive, and then sent the red cock on the roof.
Canto XV · The Marriage of the Sisters
Then the son of Olev took the second sister to wife;
Canto XVI · The Voyage of the Kalevide
So he directed Olev to fell the great oak-tree which their father and mother had planted, and which neither sun, moon, stars, nor rain, could penetrate, and to make the strongest sailing vessels for exploring voyages from the trunk, warships from the crown, merchantmen from the large branches, slave-ships from the smaller ones, children's boats from the splinters, and maiden's boats from the chips.
Canto XVI · The Voyage of the Kalevide · for seven days and nights
To the north they sailed under the guidance of a wise helmsman who knew all languages and the speech of birds and beasts. But the Finnish sorcerers raised storms against the ship, and they were driven along for seven days and nights, till a coast rose before them which the helmsman declared was quite unknown to him.
Canto XVI · The Voyage of the Kalevide
At last they found a solitary cottage, where a maiden sat on the grass plot before the door spinning. And she sang how a milkmaid once found a cock and a hen. The cock flew away, but she caught the hen, and brought it home, where it grew up into a proud princess who had many lovers, among whom were the sun and—"The Kalevide," shouted he; and the maiden screamed and fled into the house.
Canto XVI · The Voyage of the Kalevide
Then her father came to the door, and the Kalevide saluted him courteously, and asked him the way to the world's end. The wise man answered that it was a vain quest. The sea had no end, and those who had formerly attempted this quest had found their deaths on the Fire Island.
Canto XVI · The Voyage of the Kalevide
The Kalevide answered that he needed no pilot to show him the way home, but would be glad if the Lapp could pilot him to the door at the World's End. The Lapp consented, but bargained for what was chained to the wall at home, which the hero readily promised.
Canto XVI · The Voyage of the Kalevide
Then Varrak threw a small barrel overboard, wrapped in red cloths and ornamented with red streamers. This bait was swallowed by a whale, which took to flight, and towed the ship to a place of safety.
Canto XVI · The Voyage of the Kalevide · 📍 [[Island of Fire]]
The Kalevide wished to visit the island, but Varrak warned him of the danger, and at length the Sulevide volunteered to land alone.
Canto XVI · The Voyage of the Kalevide · 📍 [[Island of Fire]]
The son of Sulev wandered on amid ashes and snowfields, amid a rain of red-hot stones, till he reached the mouth of the volcano, when his coat caught fire and his hair and eyebrows were singed, and he returned scorched to the ship.
Canto XVI · The Voyage of the Kalevide · Next morning
the little daughter of a giant the giant
Next morning the little daughter of a giant found them asleep, and wondering what they were, put them all into her apron, and carried them home to her father, and scattered them before him, saying:
Canto XVI · The Voyage of the Kalevide
the little daughter of a giant Kalevide
The maiden willingly obeyed; she leaned over the ship like a vast cloud, shook the men out of her apron on deck, and then blew the ship four miles out to sea, for which the Kalevide shouted back his thanks to her.
Canto XVI · The Voyage of the Kalevide · 📍 [[Lindanisa]]
Peace was thus concluded; and the wise man told the Kalevide that the raven had sent him on an idle quest to the gates of Põrgu. The Kalevide then decided to return home, and they directed the ship towards Lalli in the bay of Lindanisa, where Olev was building a city.
Canto XVII · The Heroes and the Dwarf
Other fortified cities were founded by the Alevide and the Sulevide.
Canto XVII · The Heroes and the Dwarf
Other fortified cities were founded by the Alevide and the Sulevide.
Canto XVII · The Heroes and the Dwarf
Kalevide Alevide Olevide Sulevide the old woman at the mouth of the cave
The old woman consented, but warned them, if a strange youth asked to be allowed to taste the broth, to take good care that he did not empty the pot and leave them nothing.
Canto XVII · The Heroes and the Dwarf
Alevide the dwarf with the gold bell
He asked humbly to be allowed to taste the soup, and the hero gave him leave, but warned him to take care not to drown himself in it.
Canto XVII · The Heroes and the Dwarf
Olevide Sulevide the dwarf with the gold bell
But presently the dwarf reappeared, and neither the Olevide nor the Sulevide, who took the third watch, fared any better than their companion.
Canto XVII · The Heroes and the Dwarf
Kalevide the dwarf with the gold bell
As soon as he had received it, he playfully gave the dwarf a fillip on the forehead, when there was a tremendous crash of thunder, and the dwarf sank into the earth and disappeared from the sight of the hero.
Canto XVIII · The Kalevide's Journey to Põrgu · 📍 [[Põrgu]] · Next morning
His wearied comrades were still sleeping, and, without disturbing them, he stamped with his right foot, and the hidden strongly-guarded doors of Hades flew open.
Canto XVIII · The Kalevide's Journey to Põrgu
And now the hosts of hell, the servants of Sarvik, heard his heavy tread, and they sent out scouts, who fled back in consternation, reporting that the son of Kalev, the strongest of men, was advancing with hostile intentions. Then Sarvik commanded his forces to march against him.
Canto XVIII · The Kalevide's Journey to Põrgu
"What's this swarm of frogs?" cried the Kalevide, drawing his sword and rushing forward to the bridge. He was at once assailed with a shower of arrows, and was then attacked with spear and battleaxe; but he stood like a wall of iron, and scattered his enemies, though fresh hosts continually advanced against him. At length he fought his way through all the hostile troops, and Sarvik was in despair, and did his utmost to block the paths and to fortify himself against the imminent danger.
Canto XVIII · The Kalevide's Journey to Põrgu
When the Kalevide reached the bridge, he rested for a moment to look round, and then casting the bodies of his enemies into the river as he advanced, his steps thundered across the bridge, and he soon reached the fortifications. Three strokes of his fist sufficed to burst in the gates, and he trod down all impediments and forced his way into the enclosure.
Canto XVIII · The Kalevide's Journey to Põrgu
In the hall he found a shade resembling his mother Linda spinning. At her right hand was a cup of the water of strength, and at her left a cup of the water of weakness. Without speaking, she offered her son the cup with the water of strength, which he drank, and then lifting a huge rock broke his way into the inner hall, where Sarvik's old mother was sitting spinning.
Canto XVIII · The Kalevide's Journey to Põrgu
Then Sarvik came forth from his hiding-place pale and trembling, and wishing to recover himself a little by a potion, mistook the cups in his confusion, and drank the water of weakness, while the Kalevide took another draught of the water of strength.
Canto XIX · The Last Feast of the Heroes · for seven days and nights
After this the Kalevide and Sarvik engaged in a terrific wrestling-match, which lasted for seven days and nights, with varying success. At length the shade of Linda, who was looking on, took her distaff, swung it ten times round her head, and dashed it to the ground. The hint was not lost on her son. He seized Sarvik by the garters, whirled him ten times round, and then hurled him down, set his knee on his chest, and seized his throat and tried to strangle him. Then he took his belt, bound Sarvik firmly, and dragged him to the iron chamber, where he bound him hand and foot with chains.
Canto XIX · The Last Feast of the Heroes · 📍 [[Lindanisa]] · After the Kalevide's return from his journey
After the Kalevide's return from his journey, he resided at Lindanisa, occupying himself with schemes for the good of his people.
Canto XIX · The Last Feast of the Heroes · And now
And now messengers arrived in great haste, announcing that hostile armies of Letts, Vends, and Poles had invaded the kingdom on all sides.
Canto XIX · The Last Feast of the Heroes · to-morrow
But the Kalevide bade his comrades empty their cups, while he himself quietly gave general orders, and declared that to-morrow he would take the field in person.
Canto XIX · The Last Feast of the Heroes · Meantime
Meantime a troop of fugitives came flying to the city, bringing word that the war was close at hand, and that the axes of the youths were useless against the swords of the mail-clad warriors. The Kalevide ordered the weary men to be fed and comfortably housed, and while they slept he repaired to his father's grave.
Canto XX · Armageddon · 📍 [[Esthonia]] · When the morning dawned
When the morning dawned, the son of Kalev took his spear and sword, mounted his war-horse, and ordered the Alevide to follow him as his shield-bearer. Then he blew his horn, and set his forces in battle array. The sound of the horn echoed through city and forest, and was heard in every province of Esthonia, and the people flocked to the king at the summons.
Canto XX · Armageddon · On the third day thereafter
On the third day thereafter the battle began in earnest, and the Kalevide fought against the mailed warriors for half a day, when his horse was killed under him.
Canto XX · Armageddon
Hundreds were slain on both sides, and at last the Sulevide fell severely wounded.
Canto XX · Armageddon
But the blood continued to flow, and then the magician used stronger spells, pressed his fingers on the wound to stop the bleeding, and tied up the limb with red thread, afterwards applying healing herbs.
Canto XX · Armageddon
Meantime the Kalevide had routed the enemy and dispersed them over the plain in flight, the dead being piled up in heaps behind them.
Canto XX · Armageddon · One day
Then he dashed him down so that he sank to his waist in the ground.
Canto XX · Armageddon · One day
He seized the second by the hand, and swung him round till the forest was shaken as if by a tempest, and him he sank to the cheeks in the ground.
Canto XX · Armageddon · One day
The third he seized in the same way, and drove him so far into the ground that nothing could be seen of him but the hole where he had disappeared.
Canto XX · Armageddon · 📍 [[Lake Peipus]] · three days afterwards
These intrusions vexed the Kalevide, and he wandered away from his hermitage through the forests, and three days afterwards he reached Lake Peipus, without remembering that he had ever travelled the same way before.
Canto XX · Armageddon · 📍 [[the brook Käpä]]
So without more ado the great sword raised itself, and cut off both the hero's legs at the knee.
Canto XX · Armageddon · Presently
Presently he expired, and his soul, like a joyful bird, took its flight to the halls of Taara in heaven.
Canto XX · Armageddon · 📍 [[Põrgu]] · At last
the old father of the gods Kalevide Sarvik
At last they determined that he should keep watch and ward at the gates of Põrgu, so that Sarvik should never be able to free himself from his bonds.
Canto XX · Armageddon · 📍 [[Põrgu]]
So the soul of the Kalevide flew down from heaven like a bird, and was bidden to reanimate his body; but the might of all the gods, and even the divine wisdom of Taara, could not put his legs on again. Then they mounted him on a white charger, and sent him to the post which had been assigned to him at the gates of Põrgu.
Canto XX · Armageddon · 📍 [[Põrgu]]
He did so, and clove open the rock, and his right hand was caught in the cleft.