took an
affecting farewell of her foster-mother and all her kith and kin,
declaring that she would now be hidden behind the clouds, or wandering
through the heavens transformed into a star. Then she mounted her
sledge, and again bade her foster-mother a last and eternal farewell.
Linda and her slave-sister called after her to ask whither she was
going; but there came no answer save the sighing of the wind, and tears
of joy and regret in the rain and the dew; nor did they ever receive
tidings of Salme more.

After Salme's departure, the wedding-festival of Linda was kept up for
some time, and when Kalev finally drove off with her in her sledge, she
bade farewell to her foster-mother; but Kalev reminded her that she had
forgotten the moon before the house, who was her father; the sun before
the storehouse, who was her old uncle; and the birch-tree before the
window, who was her brother, besides her cousins in the wood. They gazed
after her sorrowfully; but she was happy with Kalev, and heeded them
not. Kalev and Linda drove on in their sledge day and night across the
snow-fields and through the pine-forests till they reached their home.

[Footnote 10: If this is a Scriptural allusion, it is almost the only
one in the book. The _Kalevipoeg_ is essentially a pre-Christian poem,
and nowhere exhibits the curious mixture of pre-Christian and Christian
ideas that we meet with in many parts of the Kalevala, and notably in
Runo 50.]

[Footnote 11: In the _Kalevala_ (= the country of Kaleva), the hero
himself does not appear in person, though we constantly read of his sons
and daughters. Some critics, however, identify him with the dead giant,
Antero Vipunen, in Runo 17 of the _Kalevala_.]

[Footnote 12: The eagle of the North plays a conspicuous part in Finnish
and Esthonian literature. It is this bird for whose resting-place
Vaeinaemoeinen spares the birch-tree, and which afterwards rescues him from
the waves and carries him to Pohjola. In several cosmogonic ballads,
too, it is the eggs of this bird and not of the blue duck which
contribute to the formation of the world: for the Mundane Egg plays a
part here as well as in other cosmogonies. The passage in the
_Kalevipoeg_, to which this note refers, corresponds almost exactly to
one in the _Kalevala_ (xxx. 1-10), which ushers in the adventures of
Kullervo.]

[Footnote 13: A province in Western Esthonia, called Wiek by the
Germans.]

[Footnote 14: Esthonia proper; special