nd find an oak and a
fir and other things, but not their daughter. Song of a maiden who was
enticed into the sea by a man of copper.
_Canto V._--The planting of the great oak-tree on the island. The
Kalevide arrives in Finland and slays the sorcerer.
_Canto VI._--The Kalevide visits a famous smith, from whom he buys a
huge sword, which was bespoken by his father Kalev. A great
drinking-bout is held in his honour, during which he slays the smith's
eldest son in a fit of drunken fury, and the smith curses him. The
felling of the great oak-tree on the island.
_Canto VII._--The Kalevide finds the sorcerer's boat, and sails
homeward. The three brothers relate their adventures and the eldest
proposes that they should now decide which of them shall settle in the
country as his father's heir. The Kalevide again visits his father's
grave.
_Canto VIII._--The three sons of Kalev journey to the shores of a lake,
and try their strength in hurling rocks across it. The youngest makes
the best cast, and the other two leave the country. The Kalevide ploughs
the land, and one day while he is sleeping his horse is devoured by
wolves.
_Canto IX._--The Kalevide slaughters the wolves. News of war. The visit
of Taara. The Finnish Bridge.
_Canto X._--In order to settle a dispute between two water-demons, the
Kalevide's cousin, the Alevide, begins to drain a swamp. The water-demon
begs the hero to desist, and the latter tricks the demon out of his
treasures. Visit of the Kalevide's cup-bearer to the water-demon's
palace, and his escape. The Kalevide overcomes the demon in hurling and
wrestling. He decides to build fortified towns, and sets out to Lake
Peipus to fetch timber. Meeting with the Air-maiden at a well.
_Canto XI._--The Kalevide wades through Lake Peipus. A sorcerer steals
his sword and sinks it in the brook Kaepae, where the Kalevide leaves it,
after enjoining it to cut off the legs of him who had brought it there;
meaning the sorcerer. He encounters a man of ordinary stature in a
forest, whom he puts in his wallet. The man relates his adventure with
two giants and their mother.
_Canto XII._--The Kalevide is attacked by three sons of the sorcerer,
and beats them off with the boards, which are destroyed. Adventure with
the hedgehog. The Kalevide finds to his grief that the man in his wallet
has been killed by a chance blow during the fight. He falls asleep, and
the sorcerer casts a spell upon him which throws him int
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