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Runo XV]

tender mother

In her home was always thinking,

“Where has Lemminkainen wandered,

Whereabouts is Kauko roaming,

For I do not hear him coming

From his world-extended journey?”

Ah, the hapless mother knew not,

Nor the hapless one imagined,

Where her own flesh now was floating,

Where her own blood now was flowing;

If he tracked the fir-clad mountains,

Or among the heaths was roaming,

Or upon a lake was floating,

Out upon the foaming billows,

Or in some terrific combat,

In the most tremendous tumult,

With his legs with blood bespattered,

To the knees with blood all crimsoned.

Kyllikki, the lovely housewife,

Wandered round and gazed about her,

Through the home of Lemminkainen,

And through Kaukomieli’s homestead;