Lempi

Also known as: Lemminkainen's father · Family: Kalevala · Role: father of Lemminkainen · First appears: Runo XI · Lemminkainen and Kyllikki · Part 1

In Runo XI, Lemminkainen is identified as Lempi’s son: “He the scapegrace son of Lempi,”

Relationship record

Life events

• Lemminkainen is identified as Lempi's son.(Runo XI · Lemminkainen and Kyllikki · Part 1)
  • With: Lemminkainen
  • “Ahti, dweller in the island, He the scapegrace son of Lempi,”

Runo XI · Lemminkainen and Kyllikki · Part 1

• child: Lemminkainen “He the scapegrace son of Lempi,”

Runo XII · Lemminkainen's First Expedition to Pohjola · Part 3

• child: Lemminkainen “Surely I have not come hither, Void of art and void of knowledge, Void of strength and void of cunning, Taught not magic by my father.”

Runo XXVI · Lemminkainen's Journey to Pohjola · Part 3

• child: Lemminkainen “Whither wilt thou go, O Kauko, Whither goes the son of Lempi?”

Runo XXVIII · Lemminkainen and His Mother · Part 2

• child: Lemminkainen “Take the boat your father left you, And betake yourself to hiding.”

Runo XXX · Lemminkainen and Tiera · Part 3

• child: Lemminkainen “Ne'er in former times my father, Never has my aged father Yielded to a sorcerer's orders, Or the wiles of Lapland's children.”

Runo XL · The Pike and the Kantele · Part 1

• child: Lemminkainen “O thou lively son of Lempi,”

Runo XLII · The Capture of the Sampo · Part 1

• child: Lemminkainen “Väinämöinen, old and steadfast, Secondly, smith Ilmarinen, Third, the lively son of Lempi, He the handsome Kaukomieli,”

Runo XLIII · The Fight for the Sampo · Part 1

• child: Lemminkainen “O thou lively son of Lempi, Of my friends the dearest to me, Climb thou quickly to the masthead, And among the canvas hasten.”

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Extracted from the original text of Kalevala. Made with Rho MD.