Reckless-lover-hero of the Kalevala; son of his mortal mother Lempi (no named father in most recensions). Pursued multiple romantic-and-military adventures including the abduction of Kyllikki, the bride-quest at Pohjola, and the swan-of-Tuonela hunt for Louhi's bride-quest task. Killed at the Tuonela River (the canonical Finnish underworld-river) by the cattle-herder of Tuonela while attempting to shoot the Swan of Tuonela; his body was thrown into the river and chopped to pieces. His mother Lempi gathered all the pieces from the river-bottom using a copper rake, sewed them together, and resurrected him through the canonical bee-honey-from-heaven incantation — one of the most-mythopoetic episodes of the Kalevala, depicted in Akseli Gallen-Kallela's 1897 painting "Lemminkäinen's Mother" (one of the most-iconic Finnish national-romantic paintings, currently held at the Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki). The hairbrush-bleeding-on-mantel omen — Lemminkäinen left a hairbrush on his mother's mantel with instruction that if it bled, she would know he had been killed — is one of the most-distinctive Kalevala narrative-images. The Tuonela-death-and-resurrection establishes his foundational dying-and-rising-mortal-hero status; subsequently participated in the Sampo-theft expedition.