Tallinn

My daughter Nusia and I flew into Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, over Lake Ülemiste — a lake said to be formed from the tears shed by Kalev’s widow, Linda. According to Estonia’s national epic, their youngest son, born after Kalev’s death, became the heroic Kalevipoeg (‘son of Kalev’). While fighting for his country and its people, Kalevipoeg also made very human mistakes during his many adventures, which have been recounted through the ages but were only written down, in verse form, in the mid-nineteenth century.