Legend
Toompea: Kalev's grave
Long ago, the old hero Kalev, king of the Estonians, died. His widow Linda could not bear to leave him under a plain stone, so she carried rocks in her apron, one after another, and piled them over his grave until a hill rose above the sea. That hill is Toompea, where the castle and the cathedral stand today. Linda's sons grew up in the shadow of their father's mound, and the youngest became Kalevipoeg, the giant hero of Estonia's national epic.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
Ammu aega tagasi suri vana kangelane Kalev, eestlaste kuningas. Tema lesk Linda ei raatsinud teda lihtsa kivi alla jätta. Ta kandis põlles kive, ühe teise järel, ja kuhjas need mehe hauale, kuni mere kohale kerkis küngas. See küngas on Toompea, kus praegu seisavad loss ja toomkirik. Linda pojad kasvasid üles isa hauakünka varjus ning noorimast sai Kalevipoeg, Eesti rahvuseepose hiiglasest kangelane.
Source: From the legend of Kalev and Linda, as told in F. R. Kreutzwald's Kalevipoeg (1857–61).