The article deals with the lexical and syntactic nominations of one of the main characters of the Karelian-Finnish work of epic poetry “The Kalevala” by Väinämöinen in parallel translations into Russian and English. The nominations characterizing the types of the character’s songs with the seme of the intellectual activity are under consideration in the article. Based on the research, which included the formation of the metalanguage of semantic description, the characteristics of the songs of Väinämöinen in three parallel translations were proposed.