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Runo XXVII]

As no ale is offered to me,

To the guest who just has entered.”

Ilpotar, the noble Mistress,

Answered in the words which follow:

“O thou boy, O Lemminkainen,

Not as guest thou com’st among us,

But upon my head to trample,

And to make it bow before you,

For our ale is still in barley,

Still in malt the drink delicious,

And the wheatbread still unbaken,

And unboiled the meat remaineth.

Yesternight you should have entered,

Or perchance have come to-morrow.”

Then the lively Lemminkainen,

Twisted mouth and turned his head round,

Tore his black beard in his anger,

And he spoke the words which follow:

“Eaten is the feast already,

Finished feast, and drunk the bride-ale,

And the ale has been divided,

To the men the mead been given,

And the cans away been carried,

And the pint-pots laid in storage.

“Pohjola’s illustrious Mistress,

Long-toothed Mistress of Pimentola,

Thou hast held the wedding badly,

And in doggish fashion held it,

Baked the bread in loaves enormous,

Thou hast brewed the beer of barley,

Six times sent thy invitations,

Nine times hast thou sent a summons,

Thou hast asked the poor, the spectres,

Asked the scum, and asked the wastrels,

Asked the leanest of the loafers,

Labourers with one garment only;

All folks else thou hast invited,

Me rejected uninvited.

“Wherefore should I thus be treated,

When I sent myself the barley?