Comparative mythology corpus

Forging A Wondrous Object From Small Or Unlikely Materials

1 appearances across 1 tradition groups.

Evidence

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TraditionSourcePassageConfidenceEvidenceRecord
Finnish/Karelian Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland DR. J.D. BUCK, / AN ENCOURAGING AND UNSELFISH FRIEND, AND TO HIS AFFECTIONATE FAMILY, / THESE PAGES ARE GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED. / PREFACE; lines 1056-1128 medium In the Finnish excerpt, Louhi of Pohjola asks Wainamoinen what he will give if she brings him to his own lands and home precinct. Wainamoinen asks what she wants. Louhi calls him wise and asks whether he can forge the Sampo with a decorated lid from a swan feather, wool, a barley grain, and a spindle fragment. record