the Maiden of Pohjola

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

• Louhi

Domains

• weaving

Relations

• won by: Ilmarinen
• refused: Väinämöinen
• killed by: Kullervo

Sources

• Reference treatments of Louhi, of the Maiden of Pohjola, and of the Kalevala's cantos.