Against a brushwood-covered hill, on a heap of twigs below a fence.
v. Upon a honeyed mountain top, under a cramped and narrow fence.
A birth took place in consequence, a lizard was produced.
It grew up beside a rock against the support of a stake,
In a heap of twigs beneath a fence.
(c.)
O lizard, "eye of Hiisi" [v. Lempo], "land-muik",[1] "water-sprat",
Certainly I know thy stock: thy father was a Brisk (Silkuna),
Thy mother was a Brisk, thou art a Brisk thyself.
v.begotten from frog's spawn.
Thou art made, of birchwood—of an aspen's fungus,
Confected from a tarry root, run up in haste from a fir branch,
Collected from a heap of dust, jumbled up from feathers,
Put behind a corner, poked into a pile of firewood,
Tossed into a heap of twigs, flung carelessly below a fence.
(d.)
A lusty old male lizard (vingas[2]) lay with an old female lizard (vangas),
2In a yard opposite a wood-pile, facing birchen logs,
3Facing a heap of twigs, bird-cherry tree supports,
Thereby a family appeared—a huge 'pod' increased;
A boy[3] came while they slept—Ungermo[4] while they reposed.
The child was brought secretly, by stealth the boy was shoved
Into bird-cherry room—a cradle of bird-cherry wood;
The boy is not concealed there, the boy poked himself into the yard,
- ↑ Corregonus albula, fresh-water herring, muik.
- ↑ Vingas is probably here a twin form of vangas, "a lizard", otherwise it means "a cold, penetrating wind".
- ↑ In Finnish the word is applicable to the young of all animals and birds.
- ↑ "The sleepy one." According to Ganander ([[Mythologia Fennicca[[, p. 100), the son of Vinga (Vingas) and Vanga (=Vangas) was Vangamoinen.
