Joukahainen

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Joukahainen's Revenge, painting by Akseli Gallen-Kallela , 1897

Joukahainen is a character from the Finnish national epic Kalevala .

He challenged Väinämöinen to a singing duel, but could not defeat its magical voice. Thereupon he was conjured into a swamp by Väinämöinen. He saved his life by promising Väinämöinen his sister Aino to be a wife.

Joukahainen later shot Väinämöinen's horse to seek revenge, causing his opponent to fall into the sea of ​​the northern Pohjola . In Finnish folk poetry, the shooter is not Joukahainen, but "lappalainen kyyttösilmä" (squinted eye from Lapland), the shot took place before the creation of the world. Väinämöinen's horse is described as a blue elk ( sininen hirvi ).

The Finnish first name Jouko is derived from Joukahainen.