Old crone at the wedding's husband
Role: husband · First appears: Runo XXIII · The Instructing of the Bride · Part 4
In Runo XXIII, Old crone at the wedding tells how she was brought as a bride to her husband’s house and led to her mother-in-law. Her husband attacks her, beats her with willow rods and a walrus-bone haft, and twists and scatters her hair. She then leaves his house and begins to wander.
Relationship record
Life events
- In the old crone's tale of her own life, she was brought as a bride to her husband's house and led to her mother-in-law.(Runo XXIII · The Instructing of the Bride · Part 4)
- With: Old crone at the wedding
- “As my husband's bride they brought me, To my mother-in-law they led me.”
- In the old crone's tale of her own life, her husband attacks her and strikes her on the head.(Runo XXIII · The Instructing of the Bride · Part 5)
- With: Old crone at the wedding
- “And he hurried to attack me, And upon the head he struck me.”
- In the old crone's tale of her own life, her husband beats her with willow rods and a walrus-bone haft.(Runo XXIII · The Instructing of the Bride · Part 5)
- With: Old crone at the wedding
- “When he seized me by the elbows, With his wicked hands he grasped me, And with willow rods he beat me, And the haft of bone of walrus.”
- In the old crone's tale of her own life, her husband twists her hair and scatters it in the wind.(Runo XXIII · The Instructing of the Bride · Part 5)
- With: Old crone at the wedding
- “In my hair his hands he twisted, Grasping it in all his fury, In the wind my hair he scattered, To the winds of spring abandoned.”
- In the old crone's tale of her own life, she abandons her husband's house and begins to wander.(Runo XXIII · The Instructing of the Bride · Part 5)
- With: Old crone at the wedding
- “From the handsome house I turned me, And my pleasant home abandoned, And commenced my weary wanderings,”
Runo XXIII · The Instructing of the Bride · Part 4
- married with Old crone at the wedding “As my husband's bride they brought me, To my mother-in-law they led me.”
Runo XXIII · The Instructing of the Bride · Part 5
- married with Old crone at the wedding “He, my husband, chanced to hear it, At the wall as he was standing.”
- enemies with Old crone at the wedding “And he hurried to attack me, And upon the head he struck me.”
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Extracted from the original text of Kalevala. Made with Rho MD.