This woman ate only the softest pine-bark bread, and refused to eat the flesh of any ewe that had been with a ram.
This woman ate only the softest pine-bark bread, and refused to eat the flesh of any ewe that had been with a ram. She also refuses to milk a cow or hitch a stallion up to the sleigh. The Star and the Moon refuse to help her when she asks where her "golden apple" is, but the Sun advises her to look in a swamp. Earlier, this figure asks her best servant Piltti to find a place where she can give birth, but when Piltti visits the ugly Ruotus, his wife yells that this woman should just give birth in a horse barn. She's turned away from her parents after she gets pregnant by eating a red cowberry, and then she's refused access to the sauna. Virokannas declares her son to be the King of Karelia, which results in Vainamoinen throwing a fit and sailing away. FTP, name this virgin female who's the subject of the 50th and final runo of the Kalevala.
This woman ate only the softest pine-bark bread, and refused to eat the flesh of any ewe that had been with a ram.
Marjatta