Lempi

Finnish · mortal · kalevala mythic prehistoric · Recorded classification

Mortal Finnish woman and mother of the lover-hero Lemminkäinen. Her gathering of her son's dismembered body from the river of the dead and his resurrection by a bee-honey incantation (Kalevala Canto 15) is among the most-celebrated episodes of the epic, immortalized in Akseli Gallen-Kallela's painting "Lemminkäinen's Mother" (1897).

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