the Kalevide's second brother

Also known as: the second brother · Family: Kalev's House · Role: second brother · First appears: Canto III · The Fate of Linda

In Canto III · The Fate of Linda, the second brother is one of the three sons of Kalev and Linda, and a sibling of the Kalevide and the Kalevide’s eldest brother. Singing beneath a birch-tree, he brings the woodland plants and fruits into bloom and ripeness.

In Canto VII · The Return of the Kalevide, he and his eldest brother welcome the Kalevide home, having mourned him as dead. The eldest brother proposes a trial to decide which of them should rule, and the second brother agrees. In Canto VIII · The Contest and Parting of the Brothers, the brothers test their strength to determine their father’s heir. When the Kalevide’s stone reaches the far shore, the second brother helps bathe and adorn him as king; the two elder brothers then take leave of him and depart.

Relationship record

Life events

• The second brother sang, bringing the birch-wood and surrounding plants and fruit into bloom and ripeness.(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.”
• The Kalevide returned home, and his brothers, who had mourned him as dead, welcomed him.(Canto VII · The Return of the Kalevide)
  • With: Kalevide the Kalevide's eldest brother
  • “He hastened on, and when he reached home his brothers, who had long mourned him as dead, received him with open arms.”
• The eldest brother proposed a trial to decide which brother should rule as king, and the second brother agreed.(Canto VII · The Return of the Kalevide)
  • With: the Kalevide's eldest 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.”
• The brothers tested their strength to decide who would inherit their father's kingdom.(Canto VIII · The Contest and Parting of the Brothers)
  • With: Kalevide the Kalevide's eldest 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.”
• After Kalevide's stone reached firm ground, his brothers declared him heir and bathed and adorned him as king.(Canto VIII · The Contest and Parting of the Brothers)
  • With: Kalevide the Kalevide's eldest 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.”
• The two elder brothers took leave of Kalevide and departed.(Canto VIII · The Contest and Parting of the Brothers)
  • With: Kalevide the Kalevide's eldest brother
  • “After this the three brothers took an affectionate leave of each other, and the two elder ones wandered cheerfully away.”

Canto III · The Fate of Linda

• parent: Kalev “Another day, the three sons of Kalev went hunting in the forest with their three dogs.”
• parent: Linda “Again and again they shouted to their mother, but there was no answer save the echo.”
• siblings with Kalevide “Another day, the three sons of Kalev went hunting in the forest with their three dogs.”
• siblings with the Kalevide's eldest brother “Another day, the three sons of Kalev went hunting in the forest with their three dogs.”

Canto VII · The Return of the Kalevide

• siblings with Kalevide “He hastened on, and when he reached home his brothers, who had long mourned him as dead, received him with open arms.”
• siblings with the Kalevide's eldest brother “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.”

Canto VIII · The Contest and Parting of the Brothers

• parent: Kalev “On the following morning the three sons of Kalev set out before sunrise towards the south; but they rested under the trees and took some refreshment during the heat of the day.”
• siblings with Kalevide “After this the three brothers took an affectionate leave of each other, and the two elder ones wandered cheerfully away.”
• siblings with the Kalevide's eldest brother “After this the three brothers took an affectionate leave of each other, and the two elder ones wandered cheerfully away.”

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