Sometimes worshipped as a God of air and wind, he won his first wife by defeating death thrice, yet when his bride died of grief he sought out a second daughter of the Northland.
Sometimes worshipped as a God of air and wind, he won his first wife by defeating death thrice, yet when his bride died of grief he sought out a second daughter of the Northland. When her mother refused this request, he abducted her on his sled and fled Pohjola. But, her whining caused him to change her into a sea gull, and against Vainamoinen's wishes, to fashion a wife out of gold. Yet, it is the quest for his greatest creation, which was given to Louhi, that dominates much of the Kalevala. FTP, identify this Finnish god of the forge who made the sampo.
Sometimes worshipped as a God of air and wind, he won his first wife by defeating death thrice, yet when his bride died of grief he sought out a second daughter of the Northland.
{Ilmarinen}