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Runo XV]

Then did she anoint the patient,

That she thus might cure his weakness,

Salved the bones along the fractures,

And between the joints she salved him,

Salved his head and lower portions,

Rubbed him also in the middle,

Then she spoke the words which follow,

And expressed herself in thiswise:

“Rise, my son, from out thy slumber,

From thy dreams do thou awaken,

From this place so full of evil,

And a resting-place unholy.”

From his sleep arose the hero,

And from out his dreams awakened,

And at once his speech recovered.

With his tongue these words he uttered:

“Woe’s me, long have I been sleeping,

Long have I in pain been lying,

And in peaceful sleep reposing,

In the deepest slumber sunken.”

Then said Lemminkainen’s mother,

And expressed herself in thiswise:

“Longer yet hadst thou been sleeping,

Longer yet hadst thou been resting,

But for thy unhappy mother,

But for her in pain who bore thee.

“Tell me now, my son unhappy,

Tell me that my ears may hear it,

Who to Manala has sent thee,

There to drift in Tuoni’s river?”

Said the lively Lemminkainen,

And he answered thus his mother:

“Märkähattu, he the cowherd,

Untamola’s blind old rascal,

Down to Manala has sent me,

There to drift in Tuoni’s river;

And he raised a water-serpent,

From the waves a serpent lifted,

Sent it forth to me unhappy,

But I could not guard against it,