Here he found a mass of money
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2025 9:41 am
The Finnish name for Najen is Noari. First came Pekka Paulinpoika Hakkarainen from Rautalammi. He had been Jaakko Posse's boy and a freighter's boy, but with his wife and children he escaped across the Åland Sea in a fishing boat. He lived as a parasite in Qvarnberg and poured a keg the size of a barrel. With his wife he sowed a loaf of rye in 14 days, poking the grains into the ground with his fingers and got a tremendous crop.
In Najen he found a new place to live. He made a raft, went across the lake and built a barn. The people of Taala burned it down while he was away, but he built a new one. The people of Vermlänt and their telegram number database courtiers burned it down too. Hakkarainen wandered to Stockholm to seek justice and the royal charter. He met his former master Posse, who said: “Is this where you, you scoundrel?” and dragged him with a stick along his back.
Here he found a mass of money, which he tied to the end of a stick and walked through the streets asking whose it was. Many said: “It’s mine, it’s mine,” but when he urged them to come to the town hall, they did not dare. The widow of a certain voud came and swore that it was hers. She received her money, a third of which was awarded to Hakkarainen. He also received a sentence that the arsonists would be burned at the same place and on the same pyres. When he saw the sentence, the courtier Jakob Hansson fell to his knees, begging for mercy. The Finn said: “Pray to God, not me!” He made a compromise on the condition that Hansson gave him a barrel of salts and a red skirt for his wife. Some say the skirt was blue and the arsonist had built a new hut, others said he had built it himself.
In Najen he found a new place to live. He made a raft, went across the lake and built a barn. The people of Taala burned it down while he was away, but he built a new one. The people of Vermlänt and their telegram number database courtiers burned it down too. Hakkarainen wandered to Stockholm to seek justice and the royal charter. He met his former master Posse, who said: “Is this where you, you scoundrel?” and dragged him with a stick along his back.
Here he found a mass of money, which he tied to the end of a stick and walked through the streets asking whose it was. Many said: “It’s mine, it’s mine,” but when he urged them to come to the town hall, they did not dare. The widow of a certain voud came and swore that it was hers. She received her money, a third of which was awarded to Hakkarainen. He also received a sentence that the arsonists would be burned at the same place and on the same pyres. When he saw the sentence, the courtier Jakob Hansson fell to his knees, begging for mercy. The Finn said: “Pray to God, not me!” He made a compromise on the condition that Hansson gave him a barrel of salts and a red skirt for his wife. Some say the skirt was blue and the arsonist had built a new hut, others said he had built it himself.