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“If the game comes on the footpath,

Drive it forward to the hero,

Do thou put thy hands together,

And on both sides do thou guide it,

That the game may not escape me,

Rushing back in wrong direction.

If the game should seek to fly me,

Rushing in the wrong direction,

Seize its ear, and drag it forward

By the horns upon the pathway.

“If there’s brushwood on the pathway,

Drive it to the pathway’s edges;

If a tree should block the pathway,

Then the tree-trunk break asunder.

“If a fence obstructs the pathway,

Thrust the fence aside before you,

Take five withes to hold it backward,

And seven posts whereon to bind them.

“If a river runs before thee,

Or a brook should cross the pathway,

Build thou then a bridge all silken,

With a red cloth for a gateway;

Drive the game by narrow pathways,

And across the quaking marshes,

Over Pohjola’s wide rivers,

O’er the waterfalls all foaming.

“Master of the house of Tapio,

Mistress of the house of Tapio;

Aged greybeard of the forest,

King of all the golden forest;

Mimerkki, the forest’s mistress,

Fair dispenser of its treasures,

Blue-robed woman of the bushes,

Mistress of the swamps, red-stockinged,

Come, with me thy gold to barter,

Come, with me to change thy silver.

I have gold as old as moonlight,

Silver old as is the sunlight,

Which I won in battle-tumult,

In the contest of the heroes,