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Runo IV]

"Thereupon I softly neared them,

And beside them took my station,

And began to ask them gently,

In the words that I repeat you:

‘Give you of your gold, O Kuutar,

And your silver give, Päivätär,

To the maiden poorly dowered,

To the child who now implores you!’

“Then her gold did Kuutar give me,

And her silver gave Päivätär.

With the gold I decked my temples,

And adorned my head with silver,

Homeward like a flower I hastened,

Joyful, to my father’s dwelling.

“These I wore one day, a second,

Then upon the third day after

Took the gold from off my temples,

From my head removed the silver,

Took them to the mountain storehouse;

In the chest with care I laid them,

There until this day I left them,

And since then I have not seen them.

“Or thy brows bind silken ribands,

On thy temples gold adornments,

Round thy neck a beaded necklace,

On thy breast a golden crosslet.

Put thou on a shift of linen,

Of the finest flax that’s woven,

Lay thou on a robe of woollen,

Bind it with a silken girdle,

Then the finest silken stockings,

And of shoes the very finest,

Then in plaits thy hair arranging,

Bind it up with silken ribands,

Slip the gold rings on thy fingers,

Deck thy wrists with golden bracelets.

After this return thou homewards

From thy visit to the storehouse,

As the joy of all thy kindred,

And of all thy race the fairest,