Suonetar

THE MOST FAMOUS SCENE IN THE POEM AFTER THE SAMPO — a mother reassembling her son out of a river — AND THE REGISTRY HELD NOBODY WHO DOES THE WORK. The healing charms name the parts: veins, sinews, flesh, and a being for each. This record holds one of them; the rest are a census row.

Domains

• veins and sinews

Relations

• restored: Lemminkäinen

Sources

• Reference treatments of Suonetar and of Kalevala rune 15.