the youngest sister

Also known as: the third sister · Role: goose-herd · First appears: Canto XIII · The Kalevide's First Journey to Hades

In Canto XIII · The Kalevide's First Journey to Hades, the youngest sister is called to join her eldest and second sisters, and is described as the one “who tended the geese on the common.”

In Canto XIV · The Palace of Sarvik · Part 1, she and her sisters tell Kalevide that they were carried away as children from a distant country and made to do hard work. In Canto XIV · The Palace of Sarvik · Part 2, Kalevide frees the three sisters from captivity. In Canto XV · The Marriage of the Sisters, she uses the wishing-rod to raise a flood between Tühi and his followers and Kalevide. Kalevide gives the sisters into the charge of Alevide, who marries the youngest sister.

Relationship record

Life events

• The sisters tell the Kalevide that they were carried away as children from a country a thousand versts distant.(Canto XIV · The Palace of Sarvik · Part 1)
  • With: the eldest sister the second sister Kalevide
  • “We, poor creatures, were carried away as children from a country a thousand versts distant, and have had to do the hardest work early and late.”
• The Kalevide freed the three sisters from their long captivity.(Canto XIV · The Palace of Sarvik · Part 2 · 📍 Põrgu)
  • With: Kalevide the eldest sister the second sister
  • “but his present care was to release the sisters from their long captivity.”
• The youngest sister raises a flood that separates Tühi and his followers from the Kalevide.(Canto XV · The Marriage of the Sisters)
  • With: Tühi Kalevide
  • “Then the youngest sister took the wishing-rod, and called upon it to flood the whole country, a bridge rising before them for the hero, while water flowed behind between him and his enemies.”
• The Kalevide gave the three sisters to the charge of Alevide alone. Alevide married the youngest sister; Sulevide married the eldest.(Canto XV · The Marriage of the Sisters)
  • With: Kalevide Alevide Sulevide the eldest sister the second sister
  • “When the Kalevide learned that he had lost seven weeks in a magic sleep, he gave the three sisters to the charge of the son of Alev, who married the youngest. The son of Sulev married the eldest, but the second sister found no lover, and while the others were talking together of their wedded happiness she stole apart weeping;”

Canto XIII · The Kalevide's First Journey to Hades

• siblings with the eldest sister (The passage calls the maiden's companions her sisters.) “The young giantess took back the hat, and wished to resume her former stature, which accordingly befell. The Kalevide then said to the maiden that he would willingly remain a little boy that day for her sake, but he was now anxious to keep the hat, that he might at once resume his own stature and strength in case of any sudden and unexpected danger. They sang and danced and sported to their heart's content, and the maiden called her second sister, whose duty it was to polish the gold, silver, and copper ware; and her third sister, who tended the geese on the common; and the sisters locked and bolted the kitchen door, for fear the old woman should hear the noise and come to disturb their merriment.”

Canto XIV · The Palace of Sarvik · Part 1

• siblings with the eldest sister “The sisters were sorry to see the dawn of day, though they were no longer obliged to spin and weave, for the old woman was locked up in the kitchen, and could not interfere with them.”
• siblings with the second sister “The sisters were sorry to see the dawn of day, though they were no longer obliged to spin and weave, for the old woman was locked up in the kitchen, and could not interfere with them.”

Canto XIV · The Palace of Sarvik · Part 2

• benefactor: Kalevide “So he seized and girded on the sword, took a load of old treasures, and many bags full of gold coins, and barrels full of silver money. All this he took on his shoulders and mounted the three sisters on the top.”

Canto XV · The Marriage of the Sisters

• married with Alevide “When the Kalevide learned that he had lost seven weeks in a magic sleep, he gave the three sisters to the charge of the son of Alev, who married the youngest.”

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