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Saturday, September 15, 2012

Who created Lake Peipsi?



Once upon a time there was Devilland  instead of Lake Peipsi. Master devil Chaos lived there. Together with the other devils he organized championships of the Devilland. The championships had three events: running, the long jump and throwing. Only devils could take part. Kalevipoeg had heard about the competitions and blended into the crowd with his costume and got registered.
First they had a running race. Kalevipoeg ran so fast that the ground looked like being ploughed up. The devils started to whine about it. The second event was ball throw. Kalevipoeg chose a massive stone and threw it very high and far, the stone fell into the ground and he was again the winner. The devils started  to complain about it and told Kalevipoeg to pull that stone out. Kalevipoeg pulled  with all his strenght, got the stone out, but now there was a huge hole and he had ruined his costume. The third competition was the long jump. Kalevipoeg jumped very far and again caused a hole into the ground, but managed to win it as well. The devils started to blate about the hole.
After the championships Kalevipoeg headed for Tartu. His costume got stuck by the gate at Devilland and was totally torn. Now the devils noticed it had been Kalevipoeg who won all the races. All the pagans and devils and the other horned creatures knew that water was Kalevipoeg’s weakeness which actually wasn’t true. The pagans started to splash water and Kalevipoeg ran away, but the others followed and kept splashing. Kalevipoeg was running, watched back and noticed that the devils had fallen behind, so he decided to have a little rest, but to his surprise he realized soon that he was almost being circled in. He started to ran again because he didn’t still understand it was just pure water they were throwing at him. The bigger and the smaller hole got filled with water and all the devils got flooded and stuck under water with their houses. So this is how the Lake Peipsi was created and as for Kalevipoeg, he began to help people and they called him „Heaven’s warrior“. 

Author: Hans-Martty Gold, form 8A (14 years)
Translated by Larsen Mölder
Teacher: Eva Pedaja
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