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Updated: June 21, 2025
She went out into the forest and cast a magic spell upon the hugest bear in all the Northland the great Otso and he hastened from his Pohjola home and began to kill the flocks and herds in Kalevala. Otso = bear. Then Wainamoinen hastened to Ilmarinen, and bade him make a triple-pointed spear with which to kill Otso.
But Ilmarinen carried the golden maiden out of the smithy and took her to the bath-room where he washed the golden and silver image and then took it and laid it in his couch, in his wife's place.
While Ilmarinen was searching, a huge monster rose from the depths and tried to seize him, but the eagle swooped down, and with one bite of his mighty beak, wrenched off the monster's head. Still Ilmarinen continued his search, until at last the monster-pike itself rose up to seize him. But as it came to the surface, the giant-eagle swooped down upon it, and buried its talons in the pike's flesh.
Ilmarinen is a wondrous smith; he it was who forged the heavens, and so perfectly did he do it that we cannot see a single mark of the hammer on them. Louhi replied: 'Only to him who can forge the magic Sampo for me will I give my daughter. Then she harnessed up her sledge and put Wainamoinen in it and made him all ready for his journey home.
The Finnish epic, 'Kalevala, tells how Ilmarinen the Smith 'forged an eagle of fire, with 'boat's walls between the wings, after which he 'sat down on the bird's back and bones, and flew.
Then she hastened to Ilmarinen, the wondrous smith, and bade him make a huge rake for her out of copper, with teeth a hundred fathoms long and the handle five hundred fathoms.
But after the three months of mourning were past, Ilmarinen went out and dug up a great quantity of gold and silver and cut down thirty sledge-loads of birch-trees, which he burnt to charcoal.
So Ilmarinen cast the maid of gold into a corner of his smithy and harnessed up his sledge and drove off to the dismal Northland, to ask Louhi to give him another of her daughters in marriage. Three days he journeyed, and on the evening of the third he reached old Louhi's home.
Still Wainamoinen persuaded him to go, and Ilmarinen went to his smithy and began to forge a sword for Wainamoinen. And when it was finished, it was so strong, by the power of the magic spells that had been used in making it, that it would cut through the hardest flint stones. Then the two heroes put on their armour and made their sledges ready, and drove off along the seashore northward.
At last the eagle made a third descent, and this time grasped the pike firmly with his beak of steel, and planted his talons firmly on the rocks, and this time he succeeded in dragging the pike from out the river. Then the eagle flew off with the pike to the top of a tall pine-tree, and there ate the body of his victim, leaving the head for Ilmarinen.
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