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No sooner had he seen the lovely maiden than he stopped, and calling to her asked her to come to his sledge. The Rainbow-maiden replied: 'Tell me what thou wishest of me. 'Thou shalt come with me, Wainamoinen replied, 'to bake me honey-biscuit, to fill my cup with foaming beer, to sing beside my table, to be a queen within my home in the land of Kalevala.
O all ye people of Kalevala, both those now living and those to come, boast not of the work that ye have done but give to God the praise, for the great Ukko alone can make all things perfect, Ukko is the one master! There was a moment's pause, and then little Mimi said that she was so glad Wainamoinen was well again, and asked Father Mikko to tell them what happened to him next.
Even the Emperor and Empress, in the privacy of their own apartments, continue to live as simply as their subjects, and devote most of their revenue to the alleviation of public distress. Kalevala; thirty-sixth Rune.
And then Wainamoinen called together the people on the plains of Kalevala, and spoke to the young men and maidens, saying: 'Listen, all ye young people. Never disobey your parents; never harm the innocent, nor wrong the weak, nor utter falsehood, else ye will pay the penance for it in the gloomy prison of Manala; for there is the dwelling-place of the wicked, and a place for the guilty.
I have to thank the editors and publishers of the Contemporary Review, the Cornhill Magazine, and Fraser's Magazine, for leave to republish 'The Early History of the Family, 'The Divining Rod, and 'Star Myths, and 'The Kalevala. A few sentences in 'The Bull-Roarer, and 'Hottentot Mythology, appeared in essays in the Saturday Review, and some lines of 'The Method of Folklore' in the Guardian.
There she let them steep and boil during the warm summer days, and at length poured off the liquor into tubs made of birch-wood. Now she pondered long how she should make the liquor ferment and cause it to foam and sparkle. 'Then Osmotar called one of the Kalevala maidens and bade her step into the birchen tub.
But Kullervo would not listen to her prayers, but rejoiced at her agony, and then the wolves and bears made one more onset, and she fell and died. Such was the end of the beauteous Rainbow-maiden, for whom so many had wooed, and who had become the pride and joy of Kalevala. Then Kullervo hastened off, before Ilmarinen should come home and find out what had happened.
Let me read you a few passages from a poem which grew up under the true conditions of natural and primitive literature remoteness, primitiveness of manners, and dependence on native traditions. I mean the epic of Finland Kalevala. Like Virgil's husbandman, our minstrel did not know how well off he was to have been without schooling.
Among the poets of the present day, there are some who have emancipated themselves from the imitation of foreign models, and have attempted to combine the earliest national elements of their literature with the characteristic tendencies of the present age. The Finnish Language and Literature: Poetry; the Kalevala; Loennrot; Korhonen. 2.
And as he started off she spoke these words to him: 'Do not raise thy eyes to the heavens, do not look upward while the day lasts, before the evening star has risen, or a terrible misfortune will happen to you. Then Wainamoinen drove off, and his heart grew light as he left the dismal Northland behind him on his way to Kalevala.
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