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In the course of all your lifetime,

While the golden moon is shining,

May you woo a golden woman,

Or distress yourselves for silver,

For the gleam of gold is freezing,

Only frost is breathed by silver."

smith Ilmarinen,

He the great primeval craftsman,

Cast away the golden image,

Cast away the silver damsel,

Afterwards his horse he harnessed,

Yoked before the sledge the chestnut,

On the sledge himself he mounted,

And within the sledge he sat him,

And departed on his journey,

And proposed, as he was driving,

He to Pohjola would travel,

There to ask another daughter.

So he drove for one day onward,

Journeyed also on the second,

And at length upon the third day,

Came to Pohjola’s broad courtyard.

Louhi, Pohjola’s old Mistress

Came into the yard to meet him,