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Woinomoinen was, according to the Mythology of the ancient Finns, the / second Godhead, being only inferior to Jumala. He was master of the / musical art, and when he played upon his instrument produced much the same / effect as the Grecian Orpheus, enticing fishes from the stream and the / wild animals from the forest. The lines here translated are a fragment of / a poem which describes a musical contest between Woinomoinen and the Giant / Joukkawainen, in which the latter was signally defeated.
Then the ancient Woinomoinen, / On the bench himself he seated, / Took the harp betwixt his fingers, / On his knee about he turn'd it, / In his hand he fitly plac'd it.