The Kalevipoeg

the Lapland maiden

Role: maiden · First appears: Canto XVI · The Voyage of the Kalevide

Life events

  • The Lapland maiden flees into the house after Kalevide interrupts her song.(Canto XVI · The Voyage of the Kalevide)
    • With: Kalevide
    • “At last they found a solitary cottage, where a maiden sat on the grass plot before the door spinning. And she sang how a milkmaid once found a cock and a hen. The cock flew away, but she caught the hen, and brought it home, where it grew up into a proud princess who had many lovers, among whom were the sun and—‘The Kalevide,’ shouted he; and the maiden screamed and fled into the house.”

Canto XVI · The Voyage of the Kalevide

  • parent: the maiden's father “Then her father came to the door, and the Kalevide saluted him courteously, and asked him the way to the world's end.”

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