The stories of the Kalevala are set in Finland. The three heroes—Vainamoinen, Lemminkainen, and Ilmarinen —dwell in southern Finland, where the climate is far more hospitable than in northern Finland, where the rugged mountainous land is often snowbound for six months of the year. The forbidding northern latitudes—the lands of the "midnight sun"—were thought to be the home of Mistress Louhi,.....
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