Väinämöinen in my sleep

[mrissa]

Okay, so I expect weird dreams when I'm sick, even when most of the fever is gone.

But I just got out my Finnish-English dictionary and discovered that what they were singing/chanting in my dream, over and over again, was, "Where is Väinämöinen? Who will be our Väinämöinen?"

With drumming.

So that was pretty creepy.

(Luckily, I'm used to picking up bits of languages without knowing I'm doing it, so my brain producing coherent Finnish sentences was not that creepy even though I don't speak Finnish. I really think the drumming was unnecessary, though. And the wailing.)

Comments

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

Well, OK....but what does that MEAN?!? :)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Väinämöinen is one of the main heroes of Finnish folklore.

Also, frankly, a pretty big jerk.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Then there are probably lots of modern candidates.(Though, hopefully, not too many in your dreams.)

[thesaucernews.livejournal.com]

I'm imagining a beat poetry session and I probably should.

[thesaucernews.livejournal.com]

and by 'should' what I meant to type was 'shouldn't'.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yah, not so much that kind of drumming.

[intrepida.livejournal.com]

Dreams and mythology.... maybe I should have posted my Anime/Apollo comment here!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Around here, just wait ten minutes, it'll come up again.

[timprov.livejournal.com]

And then Ivanova showed up and said "do you know who I am?"

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Not the one. Not the one. *Zathros shakes head*

[aszanoni.livejournal.com]

-snickers-

As long as it wasn't Bad Kosh drumming... Although now I have an image of Mideastern drumming and wailing, plus chanting in Finnish.

- Chica