Motif
bride-seeking after failed love
bride_seeking_after_failed_love
A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family, within the sub-family Bride Contest and Suitor Trials. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
finnish karelian
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Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 3496-3685 confidence: medium
Wainamoinen laments his loss of wisdom and recounts that Aino, now Wellamo's maiden, was once caught in Wellamo's grottoes with a silver fish-line and led to a copper boat, but slipped away to the home of water-maidens and kingdom of Wellamo.
The mother directs Wainamoinen away from Aino toward Northland's daughters and tells him to take a life-companion there.
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