Pohjola's maid

Also known as: handmaid hired for money / maid, of all the smallest / waiting-maid · Family: Pohjola · Role: maid · First appears: Runo XX · The Great Ox, and the Brewing of the Ale · Part 3

Life events

• Pohjola's old Mistress sent invitations but ordered her maid not to invite Lemminkainen.(Runo XX · The Great Ox, and the Brewing of the Ale · Part 3)
  • With: Louhi
  • “Then did Pohjola's old Mistress Send the guests their invitations, Sent her messengers to journey, And she spoke the words which follow: “O my maid, of all the smallest, O my waiting-maid obedient, Call the people all together, To the great carouse invite them, Call the poor, and call the needy, Call the blind, and call the wretched, Call the lame, and call the cripples; In the boat row thou the blind men; Bring the lame ones here on horseback, And in sledges bring the cripples. “Ask thou all the folk of Pohja, And of Kaleva the people: Ask the aged Väinämöinen, Greatest he of all the minstrels, Only ask not Lemminkainen, Ask not Ahti Saarelainen.””
• Pohjola's maid invited the people but left Lemminkainen uninvited.(Runo XX · The Great Ox, and the Brewing of the Ale · Part 3)
  • “Then the maid, of all the smallest, She the handmaid hired for money, Bid the guests from six directions, And in eight the news she carried; All she asked of Pohja's people, And of Kaleva the people, Of the householders the poorest, And the poorest clad amongst them, Only not the youth named Ahti, For she left him uninvited.”

Runo XX · The Great Ox, and the Brewing of the Ale · Part 3

• employer: Louhi “Then the maid, of all the smallest, She the handmaid hired for money, Bid the guests from six directions, And in eight the news she carried;”

Also listed in Pohjola — Minor Figures

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