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| | Read short version of A Baltic Pattern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | The characters I will be discussing are Kullervo of southern Finland, the Son of Kalev, or the Kalevipoeg of Estonia, Sigurd from North and Central Europe, Starkath from various parts of the Baltic region, especially Denmark, Beowulf from Denmark and Sweden, Grettir from Norway and Iceland, and of course Oedipus from Greece. |
 | | The Son of Kalev became an orphan at the beginning of his story, and that determined most of what happened to him. |
 | | Kullervo, the Son of Kalev, Starkath, Beowulf and Grettir never married, the marriages of Sigurd and Oedipus were disasters—and the marriage of Oedipus specifically made the land infertile. |
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