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Finnish Legends

by R. EIVIND ( - )

Wainamoinen's Rescue

One dark winter's day in the north of Finland, Father Mikko seeks shelter in an isolated cabin till a storm abates. After dinner the family sit around the fire, and the daughter asks him to tell them "all the stories he had ever heard from the very beginning of the world all the way down", and so the book begins. In the words of the author "If this little volume may in any degree awake some interest in the Finnish people its author will be amply satisfied, and its end will have been attained." ( Annise)

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Listen next episodes of Finnish Legends:
Ilmarinen Forges the Sampo , Ilmarinen's Bride of Gold , Ilmarinen's Fruitless Wooing , Ilmarinen's Wedding Feast , Ilmarinen's Wooing , Kullervo and Ilmarinen's Wife , Kullervo's Birth , Kullervo's Life and Death , Kyllikki's Broken Vow , Lemminkainen and Kyllikki , Lemminkainen's Death , Lemminkainen's Restoration , Lemminkainen's Second Wooing , Louhi Attempts Revenge , Louhi Steals the Sun, the Moon, and Fire , Mariata and Wainamoinen's Departure , The Birth of the Second Kantele , The Brewing of Beer , The Capture of the Sampo , The Frost Fiend , The Isle of Refuge , The Origon of the Serpent , The Rainbow Maiden , The Restoration of the Sun and Moon , The Rival Suitors , The Sampo is Lost in the Sea , The Unwelcome Guest , Wainamoinen Finds the Lost Words , Wainamoinen's Boat-Building , Wainamoinen's Expedition and the Birth of the Kantele (Harp)