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Rh The Virgin Mary, mother dear, the holy little serving-maid. The honeyed Virgin Mary saw the wool-tuft on the water.

A considerable portion of this last piece (c) will be found in the Kalevala, xlvi, 363, etc.

"Shaggy," I remember thy birth, thy bringing up, "horror of the land". v. I remember "shaggy's" birth, the bringing up of "evil soot". There wast thou born, "cunning one" —brought up, O "horror of the land", In furthest limits of the North, in Lapland's wide-extending woods— On an alder-mountain's slopes—the shoulders of a pine-branch hill. v. Under a birch-tree's triple root, in the recess of two stumps. Thy father is Putkinen, thy mother Putkitar, Thy other kinsfolk Putkinens, thou art thyself a Putkinen. v. Thy kin are in a grove of firs, thy den is in a clump of pines. On moss thou wast begotten—reared in a heather clump, In a dense copse of willows—a grove of wild bird cherry-trees, On the north side of a brook—the south (F. sun) side of a hill. v. On the lee-side of a stone—the north side of a hill. Indeed I was there myself as highest juryman, While the 'reindeer-cow' was being made—the 'cow' fashioned. The open-handed Pohja dame knocked out a head from a knoll, Dashed out a back from a pine—teeth from a water-compassed stone, Eyes from quartz stone—ears from the stuffing of a shoe, v. Eyes from a moonshine stone feet from a tuft of spinning wool, Then rattled off to the christening, carried him off to be baptized.