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Runo XXVI]

From the one bank to the other,

O’er the fiery trench passed safely,

Passed the second day in safety.

With his whip he urged the courser,

Cracked the whip all bead-embroidered,

And began to travel quickly,

As the courser trotted onward.

Quick he ran a verst, a second,

For a short space well proceeded,

When he suddenly stopped standing,

Would not stir from his position.

Then the lively Lemminkainen

Started up to gaze around him.

In the gate the wolf was standing,

And the bear before the passage,

There in Pohjola’s dread gateway,

At the end of a long passage.

Then the lively Lemminkainen,

He the handsome Kaukomieli,

Quickly felt into his pocket,

What his pouch contained exploring,

And he took some ewe’s wool from it,

And until ’twas soft he rubbed it,

And between his palms he rubbed it,

’Twixt his fingers ten in number.

On his palms then gently breathing,

Ewes ran bleating forth between them,

Quite a flock of sheep he fashioned,

And a flock of lambs among them,

And the wolf rushed straight upon them,

And the bear rushed after likewise,

While the lively Lemminkainen,

Further drove upon his journey.

Yet a little space he journeyed,

Unto Pohjola’s enclosure.

There a fence was raised of iron,

Fenced with steel the whole enclosure,

In the ground a hundred fathoms,

In the sky a thousand fathoms,

Spears they were which formed the hedgestakes,