Messengers announce successive misfortunes to warrior as he sets out for war. Tells of death of father, mother, brother, and sister, but he refuses to turn back.
Chance and fate. · The ways of luck and fate. · Persistent bad luck. · view the constellation · filed as N252.1
“Empty did he find the cabin, And the forests were deserted; No one came to give him greeting, None to give the hand of welcome; Laid his fingers on the oven, But he found it cold and lifeless; Then he knew to satisfaction That his mother lived no longer; Laid his hand upon the fire-place, Cold and lifeless were the hearth-stones; Then he knew to satisfaction That his sister too had perished; Then he sought the landing-places, Found no…”
— The Kalevala, Rune XXXVI · served from our shelf
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- FinnishThe Kalevala, Rune XXXVIThompson cites: Kalevala rune 36.