Joukahainen

[ yoh-kuh-hahy-nen ]

noun

, Finnish Legend.

1. a Sami magician who tried to kill Väinämöinen.

Example Sentences

When Yehl went to steal water from Khanukh, the pair had a discussion, exactly like that between Joukahainen and Waina-moinen in the epic of the Finns, as to which of them had been longer in the world.

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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.

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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.

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His horse and sledge seem to have been transformed, like those of Joukahainen in Runo III.

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Lemminkainen's sister.Aino, a Lapp maiden, Joukahainen's sister.Alue, name of a lake.Annikki,

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