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Life lessons from the Kalevala:
It's no good asking a salmon to be a minstrel at your wedding, because salmon can't sing. Nor can trout, nor pike.
Boys are a better bet, as they at least can sing, if not loud enough. Ignore the talking infant by the hearth, though -- he's only speaking up to get attention.
When you are riding through the forest on a raid -- as one does -- and you hear from the bushes the lamenting of a war boat who has never been taken out on the water, it may, if asked politely, be delighted to transport you. (But not your horses.)
If you have a missing sibling you've never met, confirm the ancestry of any unknown maiden you try to seduce/youth who tries to seduce you BEFORE the seduction. Or abduction, if that's the way your culture works.
Just forget about the frickin' Sampo. Nothing good will come of it.
---L.
It's no good asking a salmon to be a minstrel at your wedding, because salmon can't sing. Nor can trout, nor pike.
Boys are a better bet, as they at least can sing, if not loud enough. Ignore the talking infant by the hearth, though -- he's only speaking up to get attention.
When you are riding through the forest on a raid -- as one does -- and you hear from the bushes the lamenting of a war boat who has never been taken out on the water, it may, if asked politely, be delighted to transport you. (But not your horses.)
If you have a missing sibling you've never met, confirm the ancestry of any unknown maiden you try to seduce/youth who tries to seduce you BEFORE the seduction. Or abduction, if that's the way your culture works.
Just forget about the frickin' Sampo. Nothing good will come of it.
---L.