Saana and Malla
posted by berenice on 23 June 2011

When we came for the second  time to  the station,we found a guide about the Saana mountain:The Saana Nature Path.The better is, in that guide we  found a little bit of pages (there are only 12 pages) that talk about plants,birds,lemmings,World War II,beliefs, and the love storie  about Saana and Malla. Here is it. Legend has it that giants once lived here.The gruff Saana fell madly in love with the fair maiden Malla. When the wedding day came, with the seer Paras to marry them, the spurned rival suitor Pältsa summoned the wicked wirches of the North.An icy wind arose right in the middle of the ceremony and vast chunks of ice filled the aerea.At the last minute Saana rushed his bride into the arms of Mother Malla, and there they all remain frozen forever. The tears the maiden shed flowed down to create Kilpisjärvi. Millenia later the ice melted and the giants reappeared -Saana more rugged than ever with the rounded figure of Malla at her mother breast.The tears still flow in the Kitsi Falls. Memories of the wedding of Saana and Malla can still be seen in the splendor of the autum foliage:the church finery of the Lappish folk fleeing the wedding were torn by the strom and srtewn among the slopes and in the valleys.The youngest giants sank as skeletal pines to the bottom of the lake where they can still be seen after these thousandds of years.