the eldest sister

Also known as: the young giantess · Role: sister · First appears: Canto XIII · The Kalevide's First Journey to Hades

In Canto XIII · The Kalevide's First Journey to Hades, the first maiden used a hat to grow as tall as Kalevide, then he took it and shrank to an ordinary man’s size. She took the hat back and resumed her former stature; she and Kalevide sang, danced and sported together, and she called her second and youngest sisters to join them.

In Canto XIV · The Palace of Sarvik · Part 1, the sisters told Kalevide they had been carried away as children from a distant country and made to do the hardest work. At Põrgu in Canto XIV · The Palace of Sarvik · Part 2, the eldest sister changed Sarvik’s magic glasses while the second sister secured the wishing-rod, helping Kalevide free the sisters from their long captivity. He carried them out with treasures and money.

In Canto XV · The Marriage of the Sisters, Kalevide gave the sisters to the charge of Alevide. The son of Sulev married the eldest sister; the second sister found no lover and went apart weeping while the others spoke of their wedded happiness.