Virokannas

ONE RECORD FOR TWO ROLES, AND THE JOIN IS THE NAME AND NOT AN ARGUMENT. A god of oats in 1551 and a baptiser in 1849 share a name; the record carries both attestations and does not explain how the one became the other, because the treatments consulted do not. That a Christianised figure performs the baptism that ends the pagan age is the poem's own arrangement and not this record's reading of it.

Domains

• oats

Relations

• baptised: Marjatta's sonIn-batch.Reference treatment: the child is baptised by Virokannas and named King of Karelia. (secondary)

Sources

• Virokannas is named in Agricola's 1551 catalogue as the Karelian protector of oats, and the same name in the Kalevala belongs to the baptiser of Marjatta's son.: Reference treatments of Agricola's 1551 list of Häme and Karelian gods, and of Kalevala canto 50. (secondary)