In this text, a child is hanged from a tree but survives and is found carving pictures of heroes into the wood.
In this text, a child is hanged from a tree but survives and is found carving pictures of heroes into the wood. Because a stone baked into a loaf of bread causes a knife to break, a man in this text disguises bears and wolves as a herd of cattle to kill the wife of a smith. A grief-stricken mother in this text sends a bee to retrieve drops of magic honey to revive her son, who was shot and killed with an arrow while trying to retrieve a black swan from the underworld. In this text, the witch-queen of Pohjola (poh-YOH-lah) offers her daughter in marriage in exchange for a magical mill called the Sampo (SAHM-po), which is forged by Ilmarinen ("ILL"-mah-rin-en). Elias Lönnrot (EL-ee-as LOON-rot) compiled, for 10 points, what poem about the heroes Väinämöinen and Lemminkäinen ("VIE"-nah-moy-nen and LEM-in-kye-nen) that serves as the national epic of Finland?
In this text, a child is hanged from a tree but survives and is found carving pictures of heroes into the wood.
Kalevala [or Kalewala]