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I borrowed some books from library to read about Finnish mythology and such, and the book I started with is a book from 2003, which is a translation of a Swedish book from 1789, and it's...bizarre to read. It uses modern Finnish, (besides certain words) but it is written in very old-school way. It's weird
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Like, I read a sentence, I understand every single word, but I have no idea what it means-
So the book is basically a dictionary for mythological stuff, but, it's very bad at being that. There's part for someone called Aates, and under that it says they were a saint; and then there's a page long explanation on how Aates's daughter married someone who was someone's daughter's son; and then entirely new person got mansions from one of the previously mentioned names and it just goes on!!!
There's 11 new names under "Aates" and the only thing mentioned about Aates itself is that they are a saint
What does any of this have to do with the word? The word is mentioned once in the entire story
I don't even know what gender they are, because Finnish doesn't have gendered pronouns, and it's not mentioned once
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