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Duplicate the smaller bloodveins,

Join the ends of smallest veinlets.

“Take thou then thy finest needle,

Thread it next with silken fibre,

Sew thou with the finest needle,

Stitch thou with thy tin-made needle,

Sew the ends of veins together,

Bind them with thy silken fibre.

“If this is not yet sufficient,

Help me, Jumala, Eternal,

Harness thou thy foal of swiftness,

And equip thy mighty courser,

In thy little sledge then drive thou

Through the bones and joints, O drive thou,

Through the flesh that all is mangled,

Back and forth, throughout the veinlets,

In the flesh the bone then fasten,

Ends of veins knit firm together,

’Twixt the bones, O fix thou silver,

Fix the veins with gold together.

“Where the skin is rent asunder,

Let the skin be brought together;

Where the veins have snapped asunder,

Let the veins be knit together;

Where through wounds the blood has issued,

Let the blood again be flowing;

Where the bones have broke to splinters,

Let the bones be fixed together;

Where the flesh is torn asunder,

Let the flesh be knit together,

Fix it in the right position,

In its right position fix it,

Bone to bone and flesh to flesh fix,

Joint to joint unite thou firmly.”

Thus did Lemminkainen’s mother

Form the man, and shape the hero

To his former life restore him,

To the form he wore aforetime.

All the veins had now been counted,

And their ends were knit together,