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Runo XXXII]

“If this is not yet sufficient,

And they do not much regard it,

Then do thou forbid thy children,

Do thou drive away thy offspring.

Lead them forth from out this forest,

From this lakeshore do thou drive them,

From the lands where roam the cattle,

From among the spreading willows,

Do thou hide thy dogs in caverns,

Nor neglect to bind them firmly,

Bind them with the golden fetters,

With the slender silver fetters,

That they may commit no evil,

And be guilty of no outrage.

“If this is not yet sufficient,

And they do not much regard it,

Ukko, then, O golden monarch,

Ukko, O thou silver guardian,

Hearken to my words so golden,

Listen to my lovely sayings!

Take a snaffle made of rowan,

Fix it on their stumpy muzzles,

Or if rowan will not hold them,

Cast thou then a copper muzzle,

If too weak is found the copper,

Forge thou then an iron muzzle,

If they break the iron muzzle,

And it should itself be shattered,

Drive thou then a stake all golden,

Through the chin and through the jawbone,

Do thou close their jaws securely,

Fix them that they cannot move them,

That they cannot move their jawbones,

And their teeth can scarcely open,

If the iron is not opened,

If the steel should not be loosened,

If with knife it is not severed,

If with hatchet ’tis not broken.”

Then did Ilmarinen’s housewife,

Of the smith the wife so artful,