{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/hoe/hoe2-45.htm","path":"neu/hoe/hoe2-45.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/hoe/hoe2-45.htm","text":"ALTHOUGH Esthonia is not so distinctly a lake-country as Finland,1 which is often called \u201cThe Land of Ten Thousand Lakes,\u201d yet it is a low swampy country, with many small lakes besides the great Lake Peipus, on the south-east, and lake stories of various kinds are numerous in Esthonian tales.\nJannsen relates that Lake Kork\u00fcll or Oiso, in the district of Fellin in Livonia, stands on the site of a castle, the lord of which insisted on marrying his sister. He bribed a priest to perform the ceremony, but the castle sank into the ground with all present, and a lake arose in its stead.\nWe add a selection of Esthonian lake-stories.\n1 Finland itself means Fenland, and is only a translation of the native name Suomi.","title":"LAKE LEGENDS.","type":"page"}