Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two

Then the aged Väinämöinen Spoke aloud the words which follow: "Fire, whom Jumala created, Creature of the bright Creator, 270 Idly to the depths thou goest, Aimlessly to distant...

On the hill the sheep were straying, To the top the lambs were climbing, 50 On the plain the maiden wandered, Tripping through the alder bushes, While there called the golden cu...

When the moon away was carried, And the sun had been imprisoned Deep in Pohjola's stone mountain, In the rocks as hard as iron, Then she stole away the brightness, And from Väin...

"If this is not yet sufficient, And they do not much regard it, Then do thou forbid thy children, Do thou drive away thy offspring. Lead them forth from out this forest, From th...

With his hands the Frost then seized he, Grasped him in his fists securely, And he spoke the words which follow, And in words like these expressed him: "Pakkanen, Puhuri's offsp...

Then the aged Väinämöinen Heard his dog was barking loudly, And the dog was fiercely baying Just beside the Small-eye's dwelling, In the pathway of the Broad-nose; And he spoke...

"Thus I shouted to my daughter, Grieving ever for the lost one, And the mountains made me answer, And the heaths again re-echoed, 240 'Call no more upon thy daughter, Call no mo...

Then the hapless girl lamented, And bewailed, the copper-belted, Struggled till she broke her fingers, Struggled till her hands were twisted, 170 And she spoke the words which f...

Kullervo, Kalervo's offspring, Made him answer on the instant: "Is she dead, so let her perish. In the house a mare is waiting, 200 Which unto the grave can drag her, And can si...

"Hear me, son of Pohja's country, Pohjola's illustrious Master, Awkward 'tis in room to combat, Trouble would it give the women, If the clean room should be damaged, And with bl...

The heroes arrive at Pohjola, and Väinämöinen announces that he has come to take possession of the Sampo, either with good-will, or by force (1-58). The Mistress of Pohjola refu...

Said the lively Lemminkainen, Spoke the handsome Kaukomieli, "I have sung a song most splendid, But perchance might sing a better, If beneath a roof I sang it, At the end of the...

In the boat the mast she lifted, Put the yards and spars in order, On the mast the sails adjusted, Spread the canvas o'er the sailyards; Like a hanging cloud it waved there, Lik...

Then the lively Lemminkainen Thought of spells he heard aforetime, For the ears of furious cataract, And the sacred river's whirlpool. 20 And he spoke the words which follow, An...

Then he drove a little further, But a little way had travelled, When the horse again was shying, And again the steed was neighing. From the sledge again he raised him, And he st...

In the yard there grew an oak-tree, By the farmyard it was standing, 'Twas an oak with equal branches, And on every branch an acorn, In the acorns golden kernels, On each kernel...

"Let no sapling here be growing, Let no blade of grass be standing, Never while the earth endureth, Or the golden moon is shining, Here in Kalervo's son's forest, Here upon the...

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389. The unmanly lamentations of the heroes over a fate that has not befallen them may remind us of Grimm's story of "Die kluge Else." It will also be noticed that the heroes ar...