Kalevala Intellect GAIN CAPABILITIES

 May 10, 2021 at 2:17 AM

-Louhi, hostess of Pohyola,

Called a trusted maiden-servant,

Sent her to invite the people

To the marriage of her daughter,

These the words that Louhi uttered:

"O my trusted, truthful maiden,

Servant-maid to me belonging,

Call together all my people,

Call the heroes to my banquet,

Ask the rich, and ask the needy,

Ask the blind and deaf, and crippled,

Ask the young, and ask the aged;

Go thou to the hills, and hedges,

To the highways, and the by-ways,

Urge them to my daughter's wedding;

Bring the blind, and sorely troubled,

In my boats upon the waters,

In my sledges bring the halting,

With the old, and sick, and needy;

Ask the whole of Sariola,

Ask the people of Karelen,

Ask the ancient Wainamoinen,

Famous bard and wisdom-singer;

But I give command explicit

Not to ask wild Lemminkainen,

Not the island-dweller, Ahti!"

This the question of the servant:

"Why not ask wild Lemminkainen,

Ancient islander and minstrel?"

Louhi gave this simple answer:

"Good the reasons that I give thee

Why the wizard, Lemminkainen,

Must not have an invitation

To my daughter's feast and marriage

Ahti courts the heat of battle,

Lemminkainen fosters trouble,

Skilful fighter of the virtues;

Evil thinking, acting evil,

He would bring but pain and sorrow,

He would jest and jeer at maidens

In their trimly buckled raiment,

Cannot ask the evil-minded!"

Thus again the servant questions:

"Tell me how to know this Ahti,

Also known as Lemminkainen,

That I may not ask him hither;

Do not know the isle of Ahti,

Nor the home of Kaukomieli

Spake the hostess of Pohyola:

"Easy 'tis to know the wizard,

Easy find the Ahti-dwelling:

Ahti lives on yonder island,

On that point dwells Lemminkainen,

In his mansion near the water,

Far at sea his home and dwelling."

Thereupon the trusted maiden

Spread the wedding-invitations

To the people of Pohyola,

To the tribes of Kalevala;

Asked the friendless, asked the homeless

Asked the laborers and shepherds,

Asked the fishermen and hunters,

Asked the deaf, the dumb, the crippled,

Asked the young, and asked the aged,

Asked the rich, and asked the needy;

Did not give an invitation

To the reckless Lemminkainen,

Island-dweller of the ocean.-

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