the dwarf with the gold bell

Also known as: the dwarf · Role: dwarf · First appears: Canto XVII · The Heroes and the Dwarf

In Canto XVII · The Heroes and the Dwarf, the dwarf asked Alevide to taste the soup, then emptied the pot. He later reappeared and emptied it again while Olevide and Sulevide took their watches. Kalevide took the dwarf’s gold bell and struck him on the forehead; the dwarf sank into the earth and disappeared.

Relationship record

Life events

• The dwarf emptied the pot after Alevide allowed him to taste the soup.(Canto XVII · The Heroes and the Dwarf)
  • With: Alevide
  • “He asked humbly to be allowed to taste the soup, and the hero gave him leave, but warned him to take care not to drown himself in it.”
• The dwarf reappeared and emptied the pot again in the second watch, Olevide's, and in the third, Sulevide's.(Canto XVII · The Heroes and the Dwarf)
  • With: Olevide Sulevide
  • “But presently the dwarf reappeared, and neither the Olevide nor the Sulevide, who took the third watch, fared any better than their companion.”
• Kalevide took the dwarf’s gold bell and struck him, causing him to vanish into the earth.(Canto XVII · The Heroes and the Dwarf)
  • With: Kalevide
  • “As soon as he had received it, he playfully gave the dwarf a fillip on the forehead, when there was a tremendous crash of thunder, and the dwarf sank into the earth and disappeared from the sight of the hero.”

Canto XVII · The Heroes and the Dwarf

• enemies with Alevide (The dwarf empties the pot while Alevide is on watch.) “Then he vanished like a mist, and the Alevide found the pot as empty as if the contents had been scraped out.”
• enemies with Olevide (The dwarf again empties the pot while Olevide is on watch.) “But presently the dwarf reappeared, and neither the Olevide nor the Sulevide, who took the third watch, fared any better than their companion.”
• enemies with Sulevide (The dwarf again empties the pot while Sulevide is on watch.) “But presently the dwarf reappeared, and neither the Olevide nor the Sulevide, who took the third watch, fared any better than their companion.”

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