the Maiden of Pohjola
Finnish · demigod · kalevala mythic prehistoric · Recorded classification
SHE IS UNNAMED IN THE EPIC AND THE RECORD SAYS SO. Pohjan neiti is a title the poem uses in place of a name; treatments note that Louhi's daughters are described but not individually named. The registry files her under the title rather than declining to hold her, because the alternative is recording the epic's silence as the absence of a person, in a corpus that holds the man who forged a mill to marry her. parentIds names Louhi alone; the Kalevala's Pohjola has a master as well as a mistress, and the treatments consulted do not make him her father in terms this record is prepared to assert.
Parentage
- parent: Louhi
Domains
- weaving
Relations
- won by: IlmarinenNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing Ilmarinen record. The honest kind is 'spouse' and it cannot be used — the cost this programme has now reported in five lanes.Reference treatment: Louhi gives her daughter to whoever forges the Sampo; the Maiden of Pohjola and Ilmarinen marry. (secondary)
- refused: VäinämöinenNon-symmetric.Reference treatment: when Väinämöinen asks her to join him she sets tasks instead. (secondary)
- killed by: KullervoNon-symmetric. The corpus held Kullervo and his revenge and not the person he took it on.Reference treatment: she bakes a stone into Kullervo's bread, he breaks his father's knife on it, and sends wild beasts that kill her. (secondary)
Sources
- The Maiden of Pohjola is Louhi's daughter, the price of the Sampo, the setter of Väinämöinen's impossible tasks, Ilmarinen's wife, and the woman Kullervo's beasts kill.: Reference treatments of Louhi, of the Maiden of Pohjola, and of the Kalevala's cantos. (secondary)