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Magic Songs of the Finns.
In iron gloves, protected by copper mitts.
He had seized a fiery-pointed sword,
Kept swinging his sword in an iron mountain's rift,
In the space between two rocks—the recess between five boulders.
[His] golden ring fell rattling down into the iron mountain's rift,
Into the space between two rocks—the recess between five boulders.
From that the "crafty one"[1] originated—"striped back"[2] was produced.
Some of these lines (1, 4, 5) are introduced in the Kalevala, xxxix, 93-110, and 1. 6, in the Old Kal., xxi, 72 (var.), where Väinämöinen is trying a new sword, forged for him by Ilmarinen, previous to his departure for Pohjola. He is probably making essay of a sword in this fragment also.
(To be continued.)
