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Haha my girlfriend and I still sing the Sampo song. That movie is so disjointed that I didn’t even recognize this was that. And I still don’t know what the Sa
by Mistletoe 4y ago
Haha my girlfriend and I still sing the Sampo song. That movie is so disjointed that I didn’t even recognize this was that.
And I still don’t know what the Sampo is!
- juki 4y ago> And I still don’t know what the Sampo is! No one does. Sampo is basically just a magical MacGuffin that brings wealth to whoever has it. In Kalevala it is usually understood as a mill that creates infinite grain, salt and money, but different folk stories have different interpretations.
- iggldiggl 4y agoDon Rosa wrote a Kalevala-based Scrooge McDuck story (The Quest for Kalevala), and a "mill that creates infinite grain, salt and money" (gold) is of course an ideal object of desire for ol' Scrooge.
- goto11 4y ago> And I still don’t know what the Sampo is! You are not alone! Scholars are still debating it. It is some kind of magical device which create wealth, but there is a number of very different theories raging from a magical mill to the "pillar of the world".
- krapp 4y agoA Sampo is just a sampoid in the category of sampofunctors.
- eurasiantiger 4y agoYou jest, but Sampo is clearly an instance of the cornucopia archetype.