Kalevala shortly #3 - The challenge of Joukahainen
This is part of my "Kalevala series" in which I tell the epic folklore poetry of Finns as a series of short stories.
Don't know what Kalevala is? Check my introduction post of it: Kaleva: An epic folklore of Finns - A source of inspiration for Tolkien's mythology
Want to start from the beginning? Go to Part 1: The birth of Väinämöinen
Previous part: Cultivation of the land
Once upon there was Joukahainen, Lapplander, who had heard stories of Väinämöinen and his grand powers of singing.
Growing envious to him Joukahainen went to strike up against Väinämöinen and crushed onto him with his sledge and challenged him to a battle; but Väinämöinen refused to battle by sword.
From which Joukahainen got offended:
"One who doesn't accept sword battle, into a dirty pig I shall sing."
From this insult Väinämöinen got furious: He began to sing and the lakes spilled, rocks broke, cliffs cracked and mountains banged...
...and sang Joukahainen into a swamp.
In where his desperation grew: he offered all his fortune but none would Väinämöinen accept until as a last desperate offer Joukahainen promised his sister, Aino, for him.
Väinämöinen accepted the offer from the beaten Joukahainen.
Crushed of knowing by what he had done, he returned to his mother to tell about his unsuccesful warfare.
Hearing the news, Aino got depressed and she cried for days on which her mother asked the reason for:
"Beloved Aino why do you cry? A great man as your husband you'll get,
into house for man tall as tree."
Aino responded:
"Oh mother, my bearer! Something I cry:
for my silky beautiful hair, for its youth and strength of right now,
if I'd had to cover it, hide it, that day I'd sorrow for ever."
Part 4: Aino's tragedy
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STOPI really love this story @celestal. I look forward to more. Don't stop writing. Are you using the right tags? I will resteem your story 1 and 3. I did you 2 yesterday. Keep trying!
Many thanks for your support and resteems!
I'm not sure what do you mean by "right tags". Am I using incorrect tags or could I be using better ones? If you're wondering the "poetry" tag it is because I'm doing the dialogs in Kalevala meter and I'm also sometimes "breaking" the meter by putting two syllables into one rhythm which might cause confusion but it's also done in the original Kalevala :D
@celestal what I mean is when you write an article, at the bottom of where you enter your info is a space to choose 5 categories you want to your article to go under. So you could pick poem story culture life post. The main thing is that you want to pick categories where there are more people following so that your post can reach out to the most people as possible. That is what I meant. It may help. Take care.
Yes, I know. I already thought about the tags and I like them as they are for now.
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