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Quotation from Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot (compiler)
“If the child is not well nurtured, Is not rocked and led uprightly, Though he grow to years of manhood, Bear a strong and shapely body, He will never know discretion, Never eat the bread of honor, Never drink the cup of wisdom.”
Kalevala, Rune XXXVI, trans. John Martin Crawford
Väinämöinen's words when he hears of Kullervo's death.
Citation: "If the child is not well nurtured, Is not rocked and led uprightly, Though he grow to years of manhood, Bear a strong and shapely body, He will never know discretion, Never eat the bread of honor, Never drink the cup of wisdom." — Elias Lönnrot (compiler), Kalevala, Rune XXXVI, trans. John Martin Crawford. (id kalevala-q5)
Portrait: The Defence of the Sampo, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Public domain.
