Kalevala plot - Wikipedia and the Finnish Literature Society
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- The world is born from the eggs laid on the knee of the messy Ilmattare.
- Väinämöinen becomes the leader of the people of Kaleva.
- Joukahainen challenges Väinämöinen to a singing competition.
- Väinämöinen casts a spell on Joukahainen in the swamp, and Joukahainen promises his sister Aino as Väinämöinen's spouse.
- Aino drowns.
- Väinämöinen goes to Pohjola to propose to a Pohjola girl.
- Pohjola's mistress Louhi promises her daughter to the blacksmith Sammo, the maiden of Pohjola.
- Väinämöinen casts a spell on blacksmith Ilmarinen in the North.
- Ilmarinen forges a sambo, but does not get the Nordic maiden for himself.
- Lemminkäinen robs Kyllik as his wife.
- Kyllikki breaks the contract he made with Lemminkäinen, and Lemminkäinen leaves for Pohjola.
- Lemminkäinen receives three tasks from Louhe.
- Pohjola's herdsman shoots Lemminkäinen, and Lemminkäinen falls dead into the Tuonela river.
- Lemminkäinen's mother saves her son and brings him back to life.
- Väinämöinen searches for spell words to carve a boat for himself.
- Väinämöinen and Ilmarinen go to Pohjola to propose to a girl from Pohjola.
- Louhi gives Ilmarinen three tasks, which Ilmarinen completes with the help of Pohjola's maiden.
- The wedding of Ilmarinen and Pohjola's maid is celebrated in Pohjola.
- Lemminkäinen arrives in Pohjola angry that he has not been invited to the wedding.
- Lemminkäinen kills Pohjola's host and escapes.
- Lemminkäinen hides on the island, but has to escape from there.
- Lemminkäinen goes to Pohjola to avenge the burning of his home, but returns after the revenge trip fails.
- Untamo wants to decide to kill his brother Kalervo's entire family.
- Kalervo's son Kullervo begins to hatch revenge on Untamo, and ends up in Ilmarinen's house as a slave.
- Kullervo kills Ilmarinen's wife Pohjola's maiden to avenge this deed.
- Kullervo finds his parents and sister, whom he accidentally seduces.
- Kullervo kills all of Untamo's people and finally himself.
- Ilmarinen forges herself a golden maiden.
- Ilmarinen goes to Pohjola to propose to Pohjola's second daughter, kidnaps her and finally turns her into a seagull because the girl insults him
- Väinämöinen, Ilmarinen and Lemminkäinen go to Pohjola to rob Sammo.
- Väinämöinen makes a pike from jawbone to cantle.
- Väinämöinen lulls the people of Pohjola to sleep by playing kantele, and the people of Kaleva rob a samo.
- Louhi and Kaleva's people fight over the sampo, as a result of which the sampo falls into the sea and breaks.
- Väinämöinen collects Sammo's shards from the beaches, which bring happiness and prosperity to the people of Kaleva.
- Väinämöinen carves a birch chanterelle.
- Louhi wants to take revenge on the people of Kaleva and make their lives difficult in many ways.
- Marjatta gets pregnant from lingonberry.
- Marjata's son is baptized as the king of Karelia.
- Väinämöinen leaves and leaves his people.