the man

Also known as: poor man · Role: traveller · First appears: Canto XI · The Loss of the Sword

In Canto XI · The Loss of the Sword, the man was frightened and begged for protection at a hazel thicket. Kalevide took him by the hair, placed him in his wallet, and protected him. The man’s story described how, the previous evening, he had found shelter at the hut of the old woman, mother of the two giants. She fed him, hid him among the straw, and warned him to stay still so her sons would not kill him.

Relationship record

Life events

• Kalevide took the frightened man into his wallet and protected him.(Canto XI · The Loss of the Sword · 📍 a hazel thicket)
  • With: Kalevide
  • “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.”
• In the man's story, the old woman fed the lost man, sheltered him, and hid him from her sons.(Canto XI · The Loss of the Sword)
  • With: the old woman, mother of the two giants
  • “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

• benefactor: Kalevide “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.”
• benefactor: the old woman, mother of the two giants “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.”

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