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332 Against a brushwood-covered hill, on a heap of twigs below a fence. v. Upon a honeyed mountain top, under a cramped and narrow fence. A birth took place in consequence, a lizard was produced. It grew up beside a rock against the support of a stake, In a heap of twigs beneath a fence.

O lizard, "eye of Hiisi" [v. Lempo], "land-muik", "water-sprat", Certainly I know thy stock: thy father was a Brisk (Silkuna), Thy mother was a Brisk, thou art a Brisk thyself. v.begotten from frog's spawn. Thou art made, of birchwood—of an aspen's fungus, Confected from a tarry root, run up in haste from a fir branch, Collected from a heap of dust, jumbled up from feathers, Put behind a corner, poked into a pile of firewood, Tossed into a heap of twigs, flung carelessly below a fence.

A lusty old male lizard (vingas ) lay with an old female lizard (vangas), In a yard opposite a wood-pile, facing birchen logs, Facing a heap of twigs, bird-cherry tree supports, Thereby a family appeared—a huge 'pod' increased; A boy came while they slept—Ungermo while they reposed. The child was brought secretly, by stealth the boy was shoved Into bird-cherry room—a cradle of bird-cherry wood; The boy is not concealed there, the boy poked himself into the yard,