his volume of tales from the north concentrates on Finland. Many of these stories have their roots in the folklore of Finnish paganism, and they have many features shared with fellow Finnic Estonian mythology and other Uralic fables. Finnish folklore also shares some similarities with neighbouring Baltic, Slavic and to a lesser extent, Norse mythologies.
Much of Finnish mythology survived within an oral tradition of mythical poem-singing and folklore well into the 19th century. One of my favourite aspects of Finnish mythology is the wonderful sense of darkness at its heart.
These stories come from collectors such as Andrew Lang and his Coloured Fairy Books, the elusive R. Eivind’s Finnish Legends for English Children and Zacharias Topelius and The Birch and the Star, and Other Stories. Most derive from legendary cycles such as the Song of the Kalevala and earlier collections such as the Lapplandische Märchen. As ever, my voyage of discovery through these stories has been a delight.
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PREFACE
ANDRAS BAIVE
THE WORLD’S CREATION AND THE BIRTH OF WAINAMOINEN
THE PLANTING OF THE TREES
HOW SOME WILD ANIMALS BECAME TAME ONES
WAINAMOINEN AND YOUKAHAINEN
AINO’S FATE
HOW THE STALOS WERE TRICKED
WAINAMOINEN’S SEARCH FOR AINO
WAINAMOINEN’S UNLUCKY JOURNEY
WAINAMOINEN’S RESCUE
THE BIRCH AND THE STAR
THE RAINBOW-MAIDEN
ILMARINEN FORGES THE SAMPO
THE ELF MAIDEN
LEMMINKAINEN AND KYLLIKKI
KYLLIKKI’S BROKEN VOW
LEMMINKAINEN’S SECOND WOOING
LEMMINKAINEN’S DEATH
LEMMINKAINEN’S RESTORATION
THE FOX AND THE LAPP
WAINAMOINEN’S BOAT-BUILDING
WAINAMOINEN FINDS THE LOST WORDS
THE GIFTS OF THE MAGICIAN
THE RIVAL SUITORS
ILMARINEN’S WOOING
THE BREWING OF BEER
ILMARINEN’S WEDDING FEAST
THE MERMAID AND THE BOY
THE ORIGIN OF THE SERPENT
THE UNWELCOME GUEST
THE ISLE OF REFUGE
THE FROST-FIEND
THE SEA KING’S GIFT
KULLERVO’S BIRTH
KULLERVO AND ILMARINEN’S WIFE
KULLERVO’S LIFE AND DEATH
THE SISTER OF THE SUN
ILMARINEN’S BRIDE OF GOLD
ILMARINEN’S FRUITLESS WOOING
WAINAMOINEN’S EXPEDITION AND THE BIRTH OF THE KANTELE
THE SIX HUNGRY BEASTS
THE CAPTURE OF THE SAMPO
THE SAMPO IS LOST IN THE SEA
THE BIRTH OF THE SECOND KANTELE
THE WHITE SLIPPER
LOUHI ATTEMPTS REVENGE
LOUHI STEALS THE SUN, THE MOON, AND FIRE
THE RESTORATION OF THE SUN AND MOON
MARIATTA AND WAINAMOINEN’S DEPARTURE
HISTORICAL NOTES
ABOUT THE EDITOR
O autorze
I was born in 1962 into a predominantly sporting household – Dad being a good footballer, playing senior amateur and lower league professional football in England, as well as running a series of private businesses in partnership with mum, herself an accomplished and medal winning dancer.I obtained a degree in History from Leeds University before wandering rather haphazardly into the emerging world of business computing in the late nineteen-eighties.
A little like my sporting father, I followed a succession of amateur writing paths alongside my career in technology, including working as a freelance journalist and book reviewer, my one claim to fame being a by-line in a national newspaper in the UK, The Sunday People.
I also spent 10 years treading the boards, appearing all over the south of the UK in pantos and plays, in village halls and occasionally on the stage of a professional theatre or two.
Following the sporting theme, and a while after I hung up my own boots, I worked on live TV broadcasts for the BBC, ITV, TVNZ, Euro Sport and others as a rugby 'Stato’, covering Heineken Cups, Six Nations, IRB World Sevens and IRB World Cups in the late ’90’s and early ’00’s.
I try to combine my love of storytelling with a passion for information technology, and am currently Vice President – Technology with a major UK Fin Tech company.
You can find out more about Clive’s work and contact me at: https://www.boyonabench.com
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