the orphan girl

Also known as: an orphan girl · Role: maid-of-all-work · First appears: Canto I · The Marriages of Salme and Linda · Part 1

Life events

• The orphan girl became the widow’s maid-of-all-work.(Canto I · The Marriages of Salme and Linda · Part 1)
  • With: the widow
  • “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

• foster-parent: the widow (The text identifies the orphan girl as one of the widow’s foster-children.) “The widow went into the storehouse to look at her foster-children, and what did she behold on raising the lid of the basket? 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.”

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