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“I have chased the elk of Hiisi

On the distant plains of Hiisi.

Give me now, old dame, your daughter,

Give the youthful bride I seek for.”

Louhi, Pohjola’s old Mistress

Heard his words, and then made answer:

“I will only give my daughter,

Give the youthful bride you seek for,

If you rein the mighty gelding,

He the chestnut steed of Hiisi,

He the foaming foal of Hiisi,

On the bounds of Hiisi’s meadow.”

Then the lively Lemminkainen

Took at once a golden bridle,

Took a halter all of silver,

And he went to seek the courser,

Went to seek the yellow-maned one,

On the bounds of Hiisi’s meadow.

Then he hastened on his journey,

On his way went swiftly forward,

Through the green and open meadows,

To the sacred field beyond them,

And he sought there for the courser,

Seeking for the yellow-maned one.

At his belt the bit he carried,

And the harness on his shoulder.

Thus he sought one day, a second,

And at length upon the third day

Came he to a lofty mountain,

And upon a rock he clambered.

And he turned his eyes to eastward,

And he turned his head to sunwards.

On the sand he saw the courser,

’Mid the firs the yellow-maned one.

From his hair the flame was flashing,

From his mane the smoke was rising.

Thereupon prayed Lemminkainen:

“Ukko, thou of Gods the highest,

Ukko, thou of clouds the leader,

Of the scattered clouds conductor,