11The Virgin Mary, mother dear, the holy little serving-maid.
11The honeyed Virgin Mary saw the wool-tuft on the water.
A considerable portion of this last piece (c) will be found in the Kalevala, xlvi, 363, etc.
(d.)
"Shaggy," I remember thy birth, thy bringing up, "horror of the land".
v. I remember "shaggy's" birth, the bringing up of "evil soot".
There wast thou born, "cunning one"[1]—brought up, O "horror of the land",
In furthest limits of the North, in Lapland's wide-extending woods—
On an alder-mountain's slopes—the shoulders of a pine-branch hill.
v. Under a birch-tree's triple root, in the recess of two stumps.
Thy father is Putkinen,[2] thy mother Putkitar,[3]
Thy other kinsfolk Putkinens, thou art thyself a Putkinen.
v. Thy kin are in a grove of firs, thy den is in a clump of pines.
On moss thou wast begotten—reared in a heather clump,
In a dense copse of willows—a grove of wild bird cherry-trees,
On the north side of a brook—the south (F. sun) side of a hill.
v. On the lee-side of a stone—the north side of a hill.
Indeed I was there myself as highest juryman,
While the 'reindeer-cow' was being made—the 'cow' fashioned.
The open-handed Pohja dame knocked out a head from a knoll,
Dashed out a back from a pine—teeth from a water-compassed stone,
Eyes from quartz stone—ears from the stuffing of a shoe,
v. Eyes from a moonshine stone feet from a tuft of spinning wool,
Then rattled off to the christening, carried him off to be baptized.
