Kultapyörä

Suonetar

Names: Kalvotar
Lihatar
Suonetar

Suonetar (possibly the same as the names Lihatar and Kalvotar mentioned alongside with her) is a healing goddess who is there to help out with the sprained ankle of a horse. This is her only runosong appearance. Horse ankle incantationsare heavily Christianized, but were clearly common around pre-Christian Europe. She is called a graceful maiden (sorea neito).

The trio of names Suonetar, Kalvotar and Lihatar are asked to tie veins/tendons where they have become cut, to grow new membranes where they have become cut, and attach flesh where it has slipped off.

Etymology

Suonetar From suoni, which can mean both "vein" and "tendon".
Kalvotar From kalvo "membrane".
Lihatar From liha "flesh".

Runosongs of interest

Only in Finnish, sorry. This is the source material.