# A Finnish McGuffin

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-finnish-mcguffin/26134>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 19, 2000, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-finnish-mcguffin/26134 "2000-07-19T18:56:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2000, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-finnish-mcguffin/26134/1 "2000-07-19T18:56:40Z")

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Here’s another McGuffin: the Sampo of the Finnish epic, “The Kalevala.” The Sampo is a mysterious, valuable device that may or may not be a mill of some kind–to mill grain, as well as money. In general, it’s just valuable and was tough to make (the only one capable of forging it was Ilmarinen, who also forged the sky).

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**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2000, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-finnish-mcguffin/26134/2 "2000-07-19T20:38:28Z")

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I’ll trade you two Hamdingers for that Sampo!