Chapter VI: Part 6

Thus Wainamoinen, in his magic boat of copper, left Kalevala. On he sailed to the land of the setting sun, and at length he reached the haven and anchored his boat, never again to return to Kalevala. But the wondrous kantele and all his songs and wisdom remain among us to this day.

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'And now,' said Father Mikko, 'I have told you my last story--old Wainamoinen has left Kalevala and the rule of the Christ-child has begun. Under it our land has advanced and grown comfortable and happy--let us only pray that we may never be less so.'

They were all silent for some time, and then all of them thanked Father Mikko heartily for the pleasure that he had given them. Soon after this they had supper and went to bed, and the next morning Father Mikko drove off in his sledge, the moonlight covering all the country with a flood of silver, and soon he had disappeared into the dark and silent fir-forest; but not before he had promised them all that he would stop there again next year if possible.

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+--------------------Transcriber's Note-----------------------+ | | | Minor punctuation and printing errors have been corrected. | | | | Spelling and hyphenation corrections: | | | | Page xiii Wuvksi replaced with Wuoksi | | Page xv pronunced changed to pronounced | | Page 191 alway changed to always | | | | 1 occurrence of sheepskin changed to sheep-skin | | 1 occurrence of bearksins changed to bear-skins | | 1 occurrence of bluebirds changed to blue-birds | | 1 occurrence of sea-weed changed to seaweed | | 1 occurrence of sea-shore changed to seashore | | 1 occurrence of sea-gull changed to seagull | | 1 occurrence of snowshoes changed to snow-shoe | | | +-------------------------------------------------------------+

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