Everything about Aino Mythology totally explained
Aino is a figure in the
Finnish national epic Kalevala. It relates that she was the beautiful sister of
Joukahainen. Her brother, having lost a singing contest to the storied
Väinämöinen, promised Aino's "hands and feet" in marriage if Väinämöinen would save him from drowning in the swamp into which Joukahainen had been thrown. Aino's mother was pleased at the idea of marrying her daughter to such a famous and well born person, but Aino didn't want to marry such an old man. Rather than submit to this fate, Aino drowned herself (or ended up as a nix). However, she returned to taunt the grieving Väinämöinen as a salmon.
The name
Aino, meaning "only", was invented by
Elias Lönnrot who composed the Kalevala. In the original poems she was mentioned as the "only daughter" (
aino tytti).
National romanticism
During the
national romantic period at the end of the
19th century the mythological name Aino was adopted as a
Christian name by
Fennoman activists. Among the first to be named so were
Aino Järnefelt (Aino
Sibelius), born
1871 and Aino Krohn (the later
Aino Kallas), born
1878.
According to the Finnish Population Register Centre, over 60,000 women have been given the name. It was especially popular in the early
20th century, and the most common first name for women in the 1920s.
(External Link
) It has returned to favor in the 21st century; it was the most popular name for girls in Finland in 2006.
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