Elias Loennrot

The Kalevala Elias Loennrot

Ahti dwelt upon an island, By the bay near Kauko's headland, And his fields he tilled industrious, And the fields he trenched with ploughing, And his ears were of the finest, And his hearing of the keenest. Heard he shouting in the village, From the lake came sounds of hammering, On the ice the sound of footsteps, On the heath a sledge was rattling, Therefore in his mind he fancied, In his brain the notion entered, That at Pohjola was wedding, And a drinking-bou