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Rh :The best maiden of Pohjola Was standing near a wall, was underneath the window front, Engaged in melting virgin honey, The honey hardened on her finger-points, with it she smeared [its] teeth. A useful dog was the result, a neat, white-collared dog was got That does not eat one up, that does not bite the very least.

Parts of (a) will be found in the old Kalevala, vii, 206, etc. In a variant added at the end of that edition it says: "That the blind old man of Uloppala—another name for Pohjola—slept with his own mother, threw himself powerless on her breasts, on the surface of a swamp, on a hillock, where muddy water moves." After this she becomes pregnant with a dog, as in the versions here given.

Where was the elk born—the son of Rock reared? There was the elk born—the son of Rock reared On the surface of a windy marsh, In a dense clump of wild bird cherries—a thick grove of willows. Its back is from a bent birch-tree,