Finnish
Väinämöinen
The old singer and sage at the heart of Finland's epic, the Kalevala.
Väinämöinen is the great old singer and wise man of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic compiled in the 19th century by Elias Lönnrot from folk poetry. His songs shape the world, and with his kantele, a plucked string instrument, he can charm all of nature.
The poems behind the epic are much older than the book that gathered them.