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To the furthest bounds of Pohja,

To the distant plains of Lapland.

There indeed mayst thou be happy,

Good it is for thee to dwell there,

Wandering shoeless in the summer,

Wandering sockless in the autumn,

Through the wide expanse of marshland,

And across the wide morasses.

“But if thou should not go thither,

If thou canst not find the pathway,

Hasten then to distant regions,

Do thou wander, on thy pathway

Unto Tuonela’s great forest,

Or across the heaths of Kalma.

There are marshes to be traversed,

There are heaths that thou mayst traverse,

There is Kirjos, there is Karjos,

There are many other cattle,

Fitted with their iron neck-chains,

Ten among them altogether;

There the lean kine quickly fatten,

And their bones are soon flesh-covered.

“Be propitious, wood and forest,

Be thou gracious, O thou blue wood,

Give thou peace unto the cattle,

And protection to the hoofed ones,

Through the whole length of the summer,

Of the Lord the loveliest season.

“Kuippana, thou king of woodland,

Active greybeard of the forest,

Hold thy dogs in careful keeping,

Watch thou well thy dogs and guard them;

Thrust some fungus in one nostril,

In the other thrust an apple,

That they may not smell the cattle,

And they may not scent their odour.

Bind their eyes with silken ribands,

Likewise bind their ears with linen,

That they may not hear them moving,

And they may not see them walking.