Motif
Magical rescue-tool forged by smith
magical_rescue_tool_forged_by_smith
A motif of the Sacred Craft and Divinely Aided Construction family, within the sub-family Forged Weapons, Armor, and Rescue Tools. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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finnish karelian
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Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 7842-8032 confidence: high
Lemminkainen's mother goes to Ilmarinen's forge and asks the metal-artist to forge a rake with a copper shaft, strongest metal teeth, teeth a hundred fathoms long, and a five-hundred-fathom handle; Ilmarinen makes it.
Ilmarinen, a metal-artist, forges a specially described copper-and-metal rake that the mother uses to recover the body.
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