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She gave him the best seat at the table, and the choicest viands to eat, and gave him everything he wished for. Then she asked him if he would forge the Sampo for her, and promised him, if he would, her fairest daughter as his wife. Ilmarinen was charmed with her daughter's beauty, and he promised to do what she asked.
Old toothless Louhi saw him as he alighted, and asked him: 'Who art thou that comest through the air, riding on the storm-wind? Hast thou ever met the great smith Ilmarinen, for I have long been waiting for him to come and forge the magic Sampo for me. 'I do indeed know him well, he replied, 'for I myself am Ilmarinen.
Sampo Singi, however, would take only silver coins from Lhasa, of which we had none. Fortunately I had provided myself with two packages of blue Chinese silken material in Turkestan, and a length of that is a substitute for silver of all kinds. The Tibetans became quite excited when they heard the rustle of the silk, and after the usual haggling and bargaining we came to an agreement.
"'Then let us steal it, says one of the three. "'Agreed, say the other two. "So the rape of Sampo takes place. It is taken from Pohjola, whilst the owners are sung to sleep by the harp of Lemminkainen; sung to sleep, but not for so long a time as to allow the robbers to escape. They are sailing Kalevalaward, when Louki comes after them on the wings of the wind, and raises a storm.
Sampo is broken, and thrown into the sea. Bad days now come. There is no sun, no moon. Illmarinen makes them of silver and gold. However, Sampo is washed up, and made whole. Good days come. The sun and moon shine as before, and the sons of Kalevala possess Sampo." Vol. i., pp. 433, 434. This, again, is Mr. Latham's profound and interesting view of Buddhism: "Buddhism is one thing.
They have the Sampo there, and until it leaves them they will always prosper. And then Wainamoinen asked him of the maiden whom he had gone to woo. 'I have turned that hateful maid into a seagull, Ilmarinen answered, frowning, 'and now she flies shrieking above the rolling waves, and will never have another suitor.
We sent back a present to the king by his messenger, and five guns were fired by each of our ships at his departure, with which he seemed well pleased. We wooded and watered at the island of Sampo, and several proas came off to us with fowls, maize, pompions, papaws, lemons, Guinea corn, and other articles, which they trucked for knives, scissars, old clothes, and the like.
'I shall tell you all of Louhi's attempt at revenge on the heroes who captured the Sampo, he replied; 'and how they all failed, and then I shall wind up with the last story of all! After having rested a while, the old man continued.
When they had come near the cavern in which the Sampo lay, they sent Lemminkainen to enter the cave and bring it out. He, boasting of his strength, went into the cavern, and seizing hold of the magic Sampo, he put forth all his strength to lift it up, but it remained immovable, for the roots had grown deep into the earth, and bound it down tightly.
He must hunt down the elk of Tunela. We now see the way in which the actions of the heroes are, at one and the same time, separate and connected. There are alternations of friendship and enmity. Sampo is made and presented. It is then wanted back again. "'Give us, says Wainamoinen, 'if not the whole, half. "'Sampo, says Louki, the mistress of Pohjola, cannot be divided.
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