Lemminkäinen’s Mother, 1897 by Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931)
“Lemminkainen’s Restoration”
Rune XV of The Kalevala
in English translation by
John Martin Crawford
Lemminkainen’s aged mother
Anxious roams about the islands,
Anxious wonders in her chambers,
What the fate of Lemminkainen,
Why her son so long has tarried;
Thinks that something ill has happened
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