of his violence, and prayed to
Ukko to send fish to the country to replace the good ground which he had
destroyed in his fury. Peace was thus concluded; and the wise man told
the Kalevide that the raven had sent him on an idle quest to the gates
of Porgu. The Kalevide then decided to return home, and they directed
the ship towards Lalli in the bay of Lindanisa, where Olev was building
a city.

[Footnote 82: Here we have the great oak-tree mentioned in Cantos 5 and
6 reappearing in another connection.]

[Footnote 83: The Flyer.]

[Footnote 84: In the present canto the Kalevide is never spoken of as of
gigantic size, unless we may consider feats like this as implying it.]

[Footnote 85: Baring Gould considers this country to be the North Cape,
but the geography of the voyage is confused.]

[Footnote 86: The Maelstroem?]

[Footnote 87: The commentators identify this island with Iceland, but
the voyagers were apparently on the wrong side of Scandinavia to reach
either the Maelstroem or Iceland. Still we have both geysers and
volcanoes in the text.]

[Footnote 88: Here the Kalevide's sun begins to decline, for the first
of his faithful companions leaves his side, as Hylas left Heracles.]

[Footnote 89: This is Chamisso's Alsatian legend, "Das Riesenspielzeug,"
"The Giant's Toy," usually called in English translations "The Giant's
Daughter and the Peasant." The girl in the poem seems to have far
exceeded even the Kalevide in stature; and we may remember Gulliver's
remark respecting the Brobdingnagians--"Who knows but that even this
prodigious race of mortals might be equally overmatched in some distant
part of the world whereof we have yet no discovery?"]

[Footnote 90: Throughout this passage the giant is usually called simply
the magician, and the other "the wise man."]

[Footnote 91: Asking riddles of this kind was a common amusement in
Northern Europe. Compare Prior's _Danish Ballads_, i. 185, 334.]

[Footnote 92: Baring-Gould ingeniously suggests that this country is
Greenland, and that the Dog-men are Esquimaux, clad in furs, and riding
in dog-sledges. The end of this canto is inconsequential, for the hero
should have reached his goal during this voyage, not by a land-journey
afterwards.]

CANTO XVII

THE HEROES AND THE DWARF

Olev had now built a magnificent city, fortified with towers and
ditches, around the burial-mound of Kalev. Large numbers of people
flocked to it, and the Kalevide named