Tühi

Family: Põrgu · Role: Sarvik's brother-in-law · First appears: Canto XIV · The Palace of Sarvik · Part 1

In Canto XIV · The Palace of Sarvik · Part 1, Tühi is Sarvik’s brother-in-law. In Canto XV · The Marriage of the Sisters, Tühi pursues the Kalevide with his followers, but the youngest sister raises a flood that separates them, making “a bridge rising before them for the hero, while water flowed behind between him and his enemies.” Tühi and his seventy people flee in haste.

Relationship record

Life events

• The youngest sister raises a flood that separates Tühi and his followers from the Kalevide.(Canto XV · The Marriage of the Sisters)
  • With: the youngest sister 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.”
• Tühi and his seventy people flee.(Canto XV · The Marriage of the Sisters)
  • “And upon this Tühi and his seventy people decamped in the greatest haste, as if they had been on fire, or as if they were pursued by gadflies.”

Canto XIV · The Palace of Sarvik · Part 1

• with Sarvik (They are brothers-in-law.) “His brother-in-law is Tühi,”

Canto XV · The Marriage of the Sisters

• enemies with Kalevide “The Kalevide had not gone far on his homeward journey when he found that Tühi himself was pursuing him with a band of his followers.”

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