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348 a lawn, all winter on a hard plain, in the middle of a cornfield, in the bosom of a grain-ship. Hence the words Sampo and Sampsa seem to have been confounded.

A good many lines of (a.) will be found in the Kalevala, ii, 17, etc. The Finnish for alder tree is leppä puu, and means 'the blood tree', from the red colour obtained from the bark, which is used as a dye. In Zirian and Votyak it is called lol-pu, lul-pu, 'the spirit or life-tree'.