Kalevipoeg's bridge over Lake Väinjärv

Kalevipoeg once decided to build a bridge straight across Lake Väinjärv in Järvamaa. He carried sand from Olju hill and poured it into the water in great loads, and the sand piled up into a long ridge that runs right through the lake. Tradition also says that when he later carried sand from here towards Pskov, some of it trickled through a hole in the tail of his coat and formed the Seljamägi ridge far to the north. The bridge itself was never finished. Today the long, narrow ridge still crosses Lake Väinjärv near Järva-Jaani, and the lake's north shore has a well-kept beach for swimming.