Finnish flood myth

The Finnish flood myth is recorded in the Kalevala rune entitled Haava (The Wound, section 8).

[1] Väinämöinen attempts a heroic feat that results in a gushing wound, the blood from which covers the entire Earth.

This deluge is not emphasized in the Kalevala version redacted by Elias Lönnrot, but the global quality of the flood is evident in original variants of the rune.

In one variant collected in Northern Ostrobothnia in 1803/04, the rune tells: Matti Kuusi notes in his analysis that the rune's motifs of constructing a boat, a wound, and a flood have parallels with flood myths from around the world.

[5] The account of the great flood was embedded in a narrative that also featured the Greek sun-myths and moon-myths.