Transcriber's Notes:

1. Passages in italics are surrounded by _underscores_.

2. Punctuation and accents have been made consistent.

3. All hyphenation irregularities have been retained as printed.

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5. The following word used the [oe] ligature in the original text and has been converted to "oe" in this e-text: Vannam[oe]nen.

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KALEVALA

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CONTENTS OF VOL. II

RUNO PAGE

XXVI. LEMMINKAINEN'S JOURNEY TO POHJOLA 1

XXVII. THE DUEL AT POHJOLA 21

XXVIII. LEMMINKAINEN AND HIS MOTHER 32

Table of contents (by pages)

• 1: Kalevala, Volume II (of 2) by Anonymous
• 2: LEMMINKAINEN'S JOURNEY TO POHJOLA Argument Lemminkainen
• 3: Hastened quickly to the bathroom
• 4: 'Neath the soaring eagle's talons
• 5: Where the pathway is the narrowest
• 6: Forth no son of Turja drive me
• 7: And thou comest where thou wishest
• 8: To the eagle's throat all fiery
• 9: Spears they were which formed the hedgestakes
• 10: 630 Spoke the lively Lemminkainen
• 11: The Lord of Pohjola grows angry
• 12: And the bench of firwood tottered
• 13: 'Tis not now that Lemminkainen
• 14: 240 But the mighty son of Pohja
• 15: Said the handsome Kaukomieli Well
• 16: From the feast prepared at Pohja
• 17: 50 As it were the son of Pohja
• 18: 160 Then rose Pohjola to battle
• 19: 200 And the juniper on heathland
• 20: Lemminkainen flies from the island
• 21: Sooner still the boat of Kauko
• 22: 170 Then again sang Lemminkainen
• 23: Rose he not before the cockcrow
• 24: Sporting with unbraided damsels
• 25: Long as they could see the masthead
• 26: Juniper beside the well spring
• 27: The Mistress of Pohjola sends the Frost against them
• 28: Spoke the object of his coming O my Tiera
• 29: Thus his spear did Tiera brandish
• 30: Adders 'twas the Frost who suckled
• 31: To the home from whence thou camest
• 32: Then did Tiera make him answer
• 33: At his side his faithful Tiera
• 34: 40 Untamo began to threaten Kalervo
• 35: Where should Untamo seek aidance
• 36: And an axe he forged him quickly
• 37: 300 Untamo thereon reflected
• 38: 360 To the smith named Ilmarinen
• 39: Down into their swelling udders
• 40: Or been lost upon the heathlands
• 41: 290 For a bridge in miry places
• 42: Cast thee down among the hillocks
• 43: There are heaths that thou mayst traverse
• 44: That they cannot move their jawbones
• 45: And while Kullervo was singing
• 46: 160 Then did Ilmarinen's housewife
• 47: Uttered then the words which follow Ukko
• 48: Kullervo still wandered onwards
• 49: Formed me like a wandering seagull
• 50: When thou comest to a headland
• 51: Ever grieving for the lost one
• 52: With the very bluest stockings
• 53: 130 Straight across the heaths of Pohja
• 54: 'Neath the mountain sought for raspberries
• 55: Unavenged my father's sufferings
• 56: Like a frog returnest homeward
• 57: Eyes of cranberries from the marshes
• 58: And can sink him down to Kalma
• 59: Where the forest rose the thickest
• 60: He offers his golden bride to Vaeinaemoeinen
• 61: With their ungloved hands they pressed them
• 62: Smith Ilmarinen Went himself to work the bellows
• 63: 220 Said the aged Vaeinaemoeinen
• 64: 10 He to Pohjola would travel
• 65: 110 Thereupon smith Ilmarinen
• 66: 200 Thereupon smith Ilmarinen
• 67: Thereupon smith Ilmarinen Bit his lips
• 68: 40 Said the aged Vaeinaemoeinen
• 69: Then they went to seek the courser
• 70: Speed along unrowed by fingers
• 71: So the aged Vaeinaemoeinen Softly then began to carol
• 72: 390 Said the lively Lemminkainen
• 73: Onward steered old Vaeinaemoeinen
• 74: In the waves the spar of pinewood
• 75: Then the aged Vaeinaemoeinen Presently the fish uplifted
• 76: Nothing can be made of fishbones
• 77: As the kantele resounded No
• 78: 30 Played the aged Vaeinaemoeinen
• 79: 140 As is played by Vaeinaemoeinen
• 80: Seek the tears of Vaeinaemoeinen
• 81: Vaeinaemoeinen takes the kantele
• 82: 80 Then the crafty Vaeinaemoeinen
• 83: In the boat they stowed the Sampo
• 84: And was terrified extremely At the song of Lemminkainen
• 85: And detained old Vaeinaemoeinen
• 86: Never from the lake rose Turso
• 87: To which Vaeinaemoeinen pays no attention 305 368
• 88: With the boat of Vaeinaemoeinen
• 89: And the ship that came from Pohja
• 90: 180 Soon she came near Vaeinaemoeinen
• 91: O'er the mighty plains of Suomi
• 92: But to range the paths of Pohja
• 93: He makes himself a new kantele of birchwood
• 94: Old and steadfast Vaeinaemoeinen
• 95: Hewed the crown from me unhappy
• 96: And the aged Vaeinaemoeinen On a rock his seat selected
• 97: And she thus implored the Thunderer Ukko
• 98: Old and gap toothed dame of Pohja
• 99: Forth he went to war with Tuoni
• 100: When sends Jumala our death not
• 101: And the ulcers from the ulcered
• 102: Herds of Kalevala to slaughter
• 103: On your snowshoes come rejoicing
• 104: On my snowshoes come rejoicing
• 105: With the meat he overfilled them
• 106: There was Otso brought to being
• 107: 490 With the spear I smote not Otso
• 108: Uttered he the words which follow Otso
• 109: Played and sang old Vaeinaemoeinen
• 110: Darkness round the seat of Ukko
• 111: 110 Said the aged Vaeinaemoeinen
• 112: Perch were weeping for their dwellings
• 113: And the powan blue he swallowed
• 114: How to make the hundred meshes
• 115: There it was they sowed the flaxseed
• 116: And prepared to thresh the water
• 117: Singed the beard of Vaeinaemoeinen
• 118: On thy feet the boots of hoarfrost
• 119: Bring from Pohjola the hoarfrost
• 120: 80 Then the aged Vaeinaemoeinen
• 121: Bring a boat for Vaeinaemoeinen
• 122: In the wort the snakes were writhing
• 123: Old and gap toothed dame of Pohja
• 124: Then he went to Vaeinaemoeinen
• 125: Marjatta the petted damsel Was a very little damsel
• 126: On the heath she found the cranberry
• 127: In his shirt sat wicked Ruotus
• 128: 270 Then the little maiden Piltti
• 129: From her lap the infant vanished
• 130: Quick baptized the child with water
• 131: For the lengthy evenings' pleasure
• 132: Like those of Joukahainen in Runo III
• 133: The story of the Esthonian hero
• 134: Compare the account of the forging of the Sampo in Runo X
• 135: Which would connect it with the plague described in Runo XLV
• 136: Here a different epithet is applied to Vaeinaemoeinen
• 137: It is used as a name for Hiisi
• 138: Whom Lemminkainen carries off and KYLLIKKI
• 139: The servant or agent of Vaeinaemoeinen
• 140: UVANTOLAINEN VAeINAeMOeINEN