Joukahainen

After clashing with their horses and challenging Väinämöinen to a fight, they engage in a battle of song.

Joukahainen is enraged by all that has taken place and even though his mother tries to stop him, he ambushes Väinämöinen with his crossbow.

Joukahainen misses Väinämöinen but hits and kills his horse from under him, making him plunge into the icy waters of Pohjola.

[1][2][3][4] In the original translation into English (by John Martin Crawford (1888)) this character's name was Anglicised as Youkahainen.

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