12 A Hiitolainen's hayfork, a Piitolainen's iron goad.
12 The pricking tool of sudden death.
12 [One fork] is the shoe-awl of Keito's son, the other fork of the tongue was brought—was obtained from a comb of Väinöla.
13 From spikes of Tuoni's barley-ears, from pannicles of growing corn,
The other halves of the teeth are from the teeth of Tuoni's pike.
14 From the gums of Tuoni's girl. v. The gums were from a full-grown fish.
14 From shoots of Tuoni's growing corn [v. barley]—husks of Hiisi's oats,
Which are twining [v. blowing] into stalks, which are becoming bloody.[1]
14 From a tender grain of wheat—a husk of tender oats
Which is turning into food—rolling in its blood.
15 The body is made of the top of Lempo's skull [v. crack].
15 Of the end of a hornet's sting (F. rod)—of a devil's thong,
15 Is a Kyröläinen's ploughing whip—a Virolainen's[2] fence-rail.
15 Is a Kyytöläinen's[3] [v. Kyynäläinen's[4]] ploughing whip—an Ahtolainen's[5] fence-rail.
15 Is an Ahikainen's[6] [v. Ahotar's,[7] Ajatar's[8]] fence-rail—a Manalainen's travelling-staff.
15 The lace of a Virolainen's bark-shoe, a Kerolainen's distaff.
15 A Keitolainen's boot-lace, a Lempolainen's hair-plait band.
1 5 A hair-plait of Lempo's girl—of an evil brood.
15 A Hiitolainen's[9] hair, a beard-hair of one that's damned.
- ↑ The line seems to mean, "which are already growing into straw, are becoming fit for food."
- ↑ An Esthonian.
- ↑ An epithet of the viper or adder, from the stripes, kyytö, on its skin.
- ↑ A derivative from kyy, a viper or adder.
- ↑ An inhabitant of Ahtola, the abode of the sea-god Ahto (diminutive of Ahti).
- ↑ =Ahtikainen=Ahtolainen.
- ↑ =Ahdotar=Ahto's wife.
- ↑ Ajatar, in the plural, is found in the Finnish Bible, Levit. xvii, 7, where the original is literally "the hairy ones", in English versions "devils, he-goats, satyrs".
- ↑ An inhabitant of Hiitola, Hiisi's home; here it means Hell.
