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Then the lively Lemminkainen,

He the handsome Kaukomieli,

Spoke aloud the words which follow:

“Come, O eagle, thou from Turja,

Do thou bring three feathers with thee,

Three, O eagle, two, O raven,

To protect this little vessel,

To protect this bad boat’s timbers.”

He himself enlarged the bulwarks,

Fixed the timbers in their places,

And to these fresh boards he added,

And to fathom-height he raised them,

Higher than the waves were leaping,

Nor upon his beard they splashed him.

All his work was now completed,

And the bulwarks raised protecting,

Though the winds might blow most fiercely,

And the waves might beat in fury,

And the foam be wildly seething,

And like hillocks be uprising.

, Pohjola’s old Mistress,

Called together all her forces,