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Runo X]

First walked aged Väinämöinen,

And smith Ilmarinen second.

When they reached the spot they sought for,

On the edge of Osmo’s cornfield,

Then the smith his steps arrested,

In amazement at the pine-tree,

With the Great Bear in the branches,

And the moon upon its summit.

Then the aged Väinämöinen,

Spoke the very words which follow:

“Now thou smith, my dearest brother,

Climb and fetch the moon above us,

Bring thou, too, the Great Bear shining

On the pine-tree’s golden summit.”

Then the smith, e’en Ilmarinen,

Climbed aloft into the pine-tree,

Up he climbed into the daylight,

Climbed to fetch the moon above him,

And the Great Bear, shining brightly,

On the pine-tree’s golden summit.

Said the pine-tree’s golden summit,

Said the widely-branching pine-tree,

“Mighty man, of all most foolish,

O most thoughtless of the heroes!

In my branches, fool, thou climbest,

To my summit, as a boy might,

And would’st grasp the moon’s reflection,

And the false stars thou beholdest!”

Then the aged Väinämöinen,

Lifted up his voice in singing.

As he sang uprose a tempest,

And the wind rose wildly furious,

And he spoke the words which follow,

And expressed himself in thiswise:

“In thy boat, O wind, convey him,

In thy skiff, O breeze, convey him,

Bear him to the distant regions

Of the gloomy land of Pohja.”

Then there rose a mighty tempest,

And the wind so wildly furious

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