Toomas Niperaandi

Toomas Nipernaadi is an archetypical traveller; a vagabond. He is noted for frequent lying, for promising something to everybody around him, and to beautiful women in particular - but always moving on before his promises can be fulfilled. One of the more peculiar works in the Estonian literary canon, Gailit's novel has given modern Estonian the word 'nipernaadi,' a somewhat whimsical term for an adventurous traveller who wants to experience something off the beaten track or beyond the usual tourist sights.