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Motif

lost beloved passes into water realm

lost_beloved_passes_into_water_realm

A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family, within the sub-family United in Death. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

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1 traditions

finnish karelian

  • Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 3496-3685 confidence: high

    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.

    Aino, loved and sought as bride, is said to have escaped to the home of water-maidens and the kingdom of Wellamo.

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