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46 In iron gloves, protected by copper mitts. He had seized a fiery-pointed sword, Kept swinging his sword in an iron mountain's rift, In the space between two rocks—the recess between five boulders. [His] golden ring fell rattling down into the iron mountain's rift, Into the space between two rocks—the recess between five boulders. From that the "crafty one" originated—"striped back" was produced.

Some of these lines (1, 4, 5) are introduced in the Kalevala, xxxix, 93-110, and 1. 6, in the Old Kal., xxi, 72 (var.), where Väinämöinen is trying a new sword, forged for him by Ilmarinen, previous to his departure for Pohjola. He is probably making essay of a sword in this fragment also.