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O everlasting "gad about", an evil son for all thy life, Whence is thy stock, from what, "dread one", thine origin? Is it from wind or from the sky—from a lake's deep eddy (F. navel)? It's not from wind, not from the sky, not from a lake's deep eddy. "Dread one," I know thine origin—thine upbringing, "horror of the land". Syöjätär spat on the waters—"defective shoulder" on the waves,