Originally Posted by Uninen
I spent a good deal of the time dodging the dad and going into the sauna naked with any of them was out of the question! 
Lake Keitele, seems to be a lots of water and trees there
Painted by Akseli Gallen-Kallela by the way, I think he should be seen in the
same class as Tom of Finland. I especially like his paintings for Kalevala, the national
epos of Finland, that tells the story of how the world was created, and which Gods and
everything lived in Finland before the Swedes came with their Christian God in the
early 13th century.
Some mythic events that took place in pre-13th century Finland
The young maid Aino drowns herself rather than marries the old man
Kullervo departs for war
Kullervo´s curse
The dead Lemminkäinen with his mother, Lemminkäinen was killed,
chopped to pieces and thrown in the lake. His mother fished up his body
parts, put them together and asked the Gods to wake him, they did so
The forging of the magic mill Sampo
Sampo is lost in the sea when Louhi from the dark north Pohjola tries to
take Sampo...
It´s said that Tolkien got influenced by Kalevala a bit
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