the island maiden

Role: daughter of the islanders · First appears: Canto IV · The Island Maiden

In Canto IV · The Island Maiden, the island maiden met the Kalevide, and they talked together. When she learned he was the son of Kalev and Linda, she was seized with terror, slipped from the cliff and sank into the sea. The man of copper offered her weapons if she would marry him, but she refused, preferring a husband from a village on the land.

Her parents, the islander and the islander's wife, found her ornaments on the beach. Beneath the water, she told them of her encounter with the copper man and said she could not go home because the water weighed her down. In Canto V · The Kalevide and the Finnish Sorcerer, her parents planted an oak and a fir where she used to swing, in remembrance of their missing daughter. In Canto VII · The Return of the Kalevide, she sang beneath the waves, lamenting her fate and the evil lot of her brother, the Kalevide.

Relationship record

Life events

The island maiden fell from the cliff into the sea after learning Kalevide was the son of Kalev and Linda.(Canto IV · The Island Maiden)
- With: Kalevide
- “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.”
The man of copper offered the island maiden weapons if she would take him as her husband, but she refused.(Canto IV · The Island Maiden)
- With: 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.”
The island maiden sank into the sea after her foot slipped.(Canto IV · The Island Maiden)
- “He laughed scornfully; her foot slipped, and she sank into the sea.”
The parents found the island maiden's ornaments on the beach and learned she had a home beneath the sea.(Canto IV · The Island Maiden)
- With: 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.”
The islander and his wife planted an oak and a fir in remembrance of their missing daughter.(Canto V · The Kalevide and the Finnish Sorcerer)
- With: the islander the islander's wife
- “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 IV · The Island Maiden

with Kalevide (His familiarities alarm her.) “The hero soon joined her, and they talked together for some time, when the maiden became alarmed at his familiarities, and cried out.”
parent: the islander “The maiden could not lift her eyes to her father, but the Kalevide asked carelessly if he had seen the Finnish sorcerer pass the island in his boat on the previous evening.”
parent: the islander's wife “Her mother awoke, and thought it was only a bad dream; but her father hastened to her aid, armed with a great club.”
admirer: 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 V · The Kalevide and the Finnish Sorcerer

parent: the islander “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.”
parent: the islander's wife “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 VII · The Return of the Kalevide

siblings with Kalevide “And now he could hear the maiden singing a sad song beneath the waves, lamenting her sad fate, and yet more the evil lot of her brother, who had slain the son of his father's old friend.”

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