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Runo XVII]

Dashing through the land of Hiisi,

Gliding through the evil country.

If a stone impedes thy pathway,

Crash and scatter it asunder;

Lies a branch across thy pathway,

Break the branch in twain when passing;

If a hero bar thy passage,

Drive him boldly from thy pathway.

Go thy way, thou lazy creature,

Go thou forth, thou man of evil,

Now, before the day is dawning,

Or the morning twilight glimmer,

Or as yet the sun has risen,

Or thou yet hast heard the cockcrow!

Thou delay’st too long to leave me,

Take thy flight, O evil creature,

Fare thee forth into the moonlight,

Wander forth amid its brightness.

“If thou wilt not leave me quickly,

O thou dog without a mother,

I will take the eagles’ talons

And the claws of the blood-suckers,

And of birds of prey the talons,

And of hawks the talons likewise,

That I thus may seize the demons,

Utterly o’ercome these wretches,

That my head may ache no longer,

Nor my breathing more oppress me.

“Once did Lempo’s self flee from me,

When he wandered from his mother,

When was aid from Jumala granted,

Gave his aid, the Great Creator.

Wander forth without thy mother,

O thou uncreated creature,

Wretched dog without a master,

Forth, O whelp without a mother,

Even while the time is passing,

Even while the moon is waning.”

Väinämöinen, old and steadfast,

Answered in the words which follow: