Mariatta And Wainamoinen's Departure
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R. Eivind
Finnish Legends For English Children
T. Fisher Unwin, London
1893
Finland
Mariatta And Wainamoinen’s Departure: miraculous birth, renewal, transition, old order, sacred change, displacement, prophecy, departure, redemption, legacy
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Mariatta And Wainamoinen's Departure
There lived a fair and lovely maiden in Kalevala, called Mariatta. She was the loveliest and purest of virgins, and tended her parents' flocks upon the mountain sides. Here one day, as she was watching the sheep, she heard a voice calling to her, and on looking round she found that it was a bright red berry calling to her, and asking her to pluck it. Mariatta did not know that this was a magic berry, so she picked it and put it to her lips to eat it. But the berry rolled from her lips down into her bosom, and said to her: 'Thou shalt have a son, and he shall become a mighty man and drive forth the old magician Wainamoinen.'
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