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And he strove to gaze around him,

And he saw, as said his mother,

As his aged mother warned him,

Right in front a trench of fire,

Right across the path extending,

Ever to the east extending,

North-west endlessly extending,

Full of stones to redness heated,

Full of blocks of stone all glowing.

Little troubled Lemminkainen,

But he raised a prayer to Ukko.

“Ukko, thou, of Gods the highest,

Ukko, thou, our Heavenly Father,

Send thou now a cloud from north-west,

Send thou from the west a second,

And a third to east establish.

“In the north-east let them gather,

Push their borders all together,

Drive them edge to edge together,

Let the snow fall staff-deep round me,

Deep as is the length of spear-shaft,

On these stones to redness heated,

Blocks of stone all fiery glowing.”

Ukko, then, of Gods the highest,

He the aged Heavenly Father,

Sent a cloud from out the north-west,

From the west he sent a second,

In the east a cloud let gather,

Let them gather in the north-east;

And he heaped them all together,

And he closed the gaps between them,

Let the snow fall staff-deep downward,

Deep as is the length of spear-shaft,

On the stones to redness heated,

Blocks of stone all fiery glowing.

From the snow a pond was fashioned,

And a lake with icy waters.

Then the lively Lemminkainen

Sang a bridge of ice together,

Stretching right across the snow-pond,