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Runo XVIII]

Golden earrings, two or three pairs,

Five or six linked girdles make me,

For most weighty truth I’ll tell you,

All the truth without evasion.”

Said the smith, said Ilmarinen,

“If you tell me news important,

Then a shuttle will I forge you,

Pretty rings to deck your fingers,

And a cross upon your bosom,

And the finest head-dress forge you.

If the words you speak are evil,

All your ornaments I’ll shatter,

Tear them off to feed the furnace,

And beneath the forge will thrust them.”

Annikki, the ever-famous,

Answered in the words which follow:

“O thou smith, O Ilmarinen,

Do you still propose to marry

Her, the bride who once was promised,

And as wife was pledged unto you?

“While you weld and hammer always,

Ever working with your hammer,

Making horseshoes in the summer,

Iron horseshoes for the winter,

Working at your sledge at night-time,

And its frame in daytime shaping,

Forth to journey to your wooing,

And to Pohjola to travel,

One more cunning goes before you,

And another speeds beyond you,

And your own will capture from you,

And your love will ravish from you,

Whom two years ago thou sawest,

Whom two years agone thou wooed’st.

Know that Väinämöinen journeys

O’er the blue waves of the ocean,

In a boat with prow all golden,

Steering with his copper rudder,

To the gloomy land of Pohja,

Sariola, for ever misty.”