Lemminkainen

I can only hope, that like the body of Lemminkainen as Diane so wisely suggests it can be made whole once more.

Archive 2005-06-01 K. A. Laity 2005

I can only hope, that like the body of Lemminkainen as Diane so wisely suggests it can be made whole once more.

From Väinämöinen to Gerry to Me! K. A. Laity 2005

Wainamoinen answered: 'O stupid Lemminkainen, dost thou not recognise us, and canst thou not guess whither we are bound?'

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And Hisi sent it off to Pohjola, telling it to lure Lemminkainen into the snow-covered mountains and there to wear him out with the cold and the fatigue of the chase.

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Nor had he long to wait before whole troops of reindeer came flocking into the palace courtyard, and Lemminkainen saw among them the Hisi-deer, and caught it.

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He had his snow-shoes and some meat with him, and managed to explain, between his sobs, that he had intended to go and hunt for reindeer in Lapland, the way Lemminkainen did in the story, but his snow-shoe had caught in the wall and disaster had overtaken him.

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But Lemminkainen answered them that he felt a great longing to see his home once more and his mother, yet that he was truly sorrowful to leave them, but it must be so.

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The other turned without thinking, to see what it was, and quick as lightning Lemminkainen whirled his sword round his head, and with one blow cut off the host's head as easily as one cuts the top from a turnip, and the head rolled along on the ground.

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Lemminkainen to row with all their might, in order to escape from their pursuers.

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Lemminkainen wore in the story of the hunt after the Hisi-deer.

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