16 The belt from the belt of Tapio's wife, the shirt-belt of a shirt-wearer.
16 It's Hiisi's hay [v. coal] fork, the evil spirit's toasting-fork.
16 A woman (kapo) had dropt on a path, Air's girl had fallen asleep,
A copper quiver on her back, a copper arrow within it,
From that the back was fashioned—the back-bone was composed.
17 From an evil willow-shoot, v. From the sheath of Kaleva's son.
17 From the shirt-string of a shirt-wearer.
18 From the shirt-belt of a shirt-wearer.
19 The life from Hiisi's glowing coals, v. From the fire of Hell.
19 From Satan's charcoal hill.
19 From evil steam, from the spray of Hiisi's rapids.
21 [The heart is] the heart's core of Syöjätär—a fragment of Mammotar's[1] liver.
22 From the surge of Hiisi's stream.
xii.—The Origin of the Viper (Adder).
(a)
Night's girl, Dusk's maiden, who keeps the long evening watch.
Was spinning a stony thread—twisting a gravelly one
On a stone distaff—a copper spinning staff.
The stony thread broke—the gravelly one in her fingers
From the stony distaff—the copper spinning staff.
What was the end of the broken end? from that an evil brood was gotten,
From that "striped back"[2] originated—the "worm of Manala" was bred.
(b)
Sturdy old Väinämöinen
Was splitting mountains, cutting [v. rolling] down rocks
