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If the sprout should be developed,

And the stalk should form upon it,

May it never come to earing,

Or the stalk-end be developed.”

Then the mighty Untamoinen,

Wandered forth to gaze about him,

Learn how Kalervo’s son cleared it,

And the new slave made a clearing.

But he found not any clearing,

And the young man had not cleared it.

Untamo thereon reflected,

“For such labour he’s unsuited,

He has spoiled the best of timber,

And has felled the best for planking.

Now I know not where to send him,

Nor what work I ought to give him.

Should I let him make a fencing?“

So he went to make a fencing.

Kullervo, Kalervo’s offspring,

Set himself to make a fencing,

And for this he took whole pine-trees,

And he used them for the fence-stakes,

Took whole fir-trees from the forest,

Wattled them to make the fencing,

Bound the branches fast together

With the largest mountain-ashtrees;

But he made the fence continuous,

And he made no gateway through it,

And he spoke the words which follow,

And in words like these expressed him:

“He who cannot raise him birdlike,

Nor upon two wings can hover,

Never may he pass across it,

Over Kalervo’s son’s fencing!”

Then did Untamo determine

Forth to go and gaze around him,

Viewing Kalervo’s son’s fencing

By the slave of war constructed.

Stood the fence without an opening

Neither gap nor crevice through it,