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Runo IV]

the little maiden Aino,

Youthful Joukahainen’s sister,

Went for besoms to the greenwood,

Sought for bath-whisks in the bushes;

One she gathered for her father,

And a second for her mother,

And she gathered yet another,

For her young and ruddy brother.

As she turned her footsteps homeward,

Pushing through the alder-bushes,

Came the aged Väinämöinen,

And he saw her in the thicket,

Finely clad among the herbage,

And he spoke the words which follow:

“Maiden, do not wear for others,

But for me alone, O maiden,

Round thy neck a beaded necklace,

And a cross upon thy bosom.

Plait for me thy beauteous tresses,

Bind thy hair with silken ribands.”

But the young maid gave him answer,

“Not for thee, and not for others,

Rests the cross upon my bosom,

And my hair is bound with ribands.