Aino

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Akseli Gallen-Kallela , Aino triptych
Left: First encounter; right: Aino desperate on the bank; Middle: Aino escapes Väinämöinen forever.

Aino is the beautiful sister of Joukahainen in Finnish mythology and in the Finnish national epic Kalevala .

background

Her brother had promised her to Väinämöinen as his wife, so that he might let him live. But when Aino saw how ancient Väinämöinen was, she despaired and jumped into a lake. Väinämöinen caught her with his magic net, but the water goddess Vellamo had turned her into a little fish, which the disappointed man threw back, whereupon she turned back, laughed at him and disappeared forever.

literature

  • Matthias Alexander Castrén, Anton Schiefner: Lectures on Finnish mythology. Buchdr. der Kaiserlichen Akad. der Wiss., St. Petersburg 1969, OCLC 255175082 , p. 75.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Limited Sources, Boundless Possibilities at helsinki.fi, accessed on March 1, 2014. (PDF, p. 50.)