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Kullerwoinen, young magician, / In his beauteous, golden ringlets, / In his magic shoes of deer-skin, / Left the home of Ilmarinen / Wandered forth upon his journey, / Ere the blacksmith heard the tidings / Of the cruel death and torture / Of his wife and joy-companion, / Lest a bloody fight should follow.
Kullerwoinen left the smithy, / Blowing on his magic bugle, / Joyful left the lands of Ilma, / Blowing blithely on the heather, / Made the distant hills re-echo, / Made the swamps and mountains tremble, / Made the heather-blossoms answer / To the music of his cow-horn, / In its wild reverberations, / To the magic of his playing.