Joukahainen
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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His horse and sledge seem to have been transformed, like those of Joukahainen in Runo III.
From Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two by Elias Lönnrot
Came the youthful Joukahainen Driving on the road against him, And the shafts were wedged together, And the reins were all entangled, And the collar jammed with collar, And the runners dashed together.
From Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes by W. F. (William Forsell) Kirby
Then was Wäinämöinen wroth, and by the force of his enchantment he rooted Joukahainen to the ground, and suffered him not to go free without promising him the hand of his sister Aino.
From Custom and Myth New Edition by Andrew Lang
This man, Joukahainen, provoked him to a trial of song, boasting, like Empedocles, or like one of the old Celtic bards, that he had been all things.
From Custom and Myth by Andrew Lang
Then the youthful Joukahainen, He, the meagre son of Lapland, Spanned in haste his mighty crossbow.
From Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes by W. F. (William Forsell) Kirby
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