Joukahainen

American  

[yoh-kuh-hahy-nen] / ˈyoʊ kəˌhaɪ nɛn /

noun

Finnish Legend.

1. a Sami magician who tried to kill Väinämöinen.

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Example Sentences

Youth, if you are Joukahainen, You should move aside a little.

From Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes by Kirby, W. F. (William Forsell)

Then the youthful Joukahainen Answered in the words which follow:110 "I am youthful Joukahainen; But yourself should also tell me, What your race, and what your nation, And from what vile stock you issue."

From Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes by Kirby, W. F. (William Forsell)

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 Kirby, W. F. (William Forsell)

Then the youthful Joukahainen Shook his head, his mouth drawn crooked, And he tossed his locks of blackness.

From Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes by Kirby, W. F. (William Forsell)

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 Lang, Andrew