othing can destroy her love
for her son.

"Canst not fathom love maternal,
Canst not smother her affection;
Bitterly I'll mourn thy downfall,
I would weep if thou shouldst perish,
Shouldst thou leave my race forever;
I would weep in court or cabin,
Sprinkle all these fields with tear-drops,
Weep great rivers to the ocean,
Weep to melt the snows of Northland,
Make the hillocks green with weeping,
Weep at morning, weep at evening,
Weep three years in bitter sorrow
O'er the death of Kullerwoinen!"

Kullerwoinen, armed with a magic sword, does great slaughter among his
foes, and returns home only to find all his kin have perished. While
he mourns their death, his mother's spirit bids him follow his
watch-dog--the only living creature left him. During this strange
promenade, coming to the spot where he assaulted his sister,
Kullerwoinen falls upon his magic sword and dies, an episode which
inspires Wainamoinen with these words of wisdom:

"If the child is not well nurtured,
Is not rocked and led uprightly,
Though he grow to years of manhood,
Bear a strong and shapely body,
He will never know discretion,
Never eat the bread of honor,
Never drink the cup of wisdom."

_Rune XXXVII and XXXVIII._ Meantime Ilmarinen, after grieving three
months for the loss of the Rainbow Maiden, proceeds to fashion himself
a wife out of gold and silver, but, as she is lifeless and
unresponsive, he offers her to Wainamoinen,--who refuses her,--and
travels northward once more to woo a sister of his former bride. On
arriving at Louhi's house,--undeterred by many evil omens which have
crossed his path,--Ilmarinen sues for a bride. Louhi reproaches him
for the treatment her first daughter has undergone, but, although the
second maiden refuses to follow him, he boldly carries her off by
force. She is, however, so unhappy with him that the blacksmith
finally changes her into a sea-gull.

"I have changed the hateful virgin
To a sea-gull on the ocean;
Now she calls above the waters,
Screeches from the ocean-islands,
On the rocks she calls and murmurs,
Vainly calling for a suitor."

_Runes XXXIX, XL, and XLI._ To comfort himself, Ilmarinen concludes he
would like to have the Sampo, and persuades Wainamoinen and
Lemminkainen to accompany him northward to get it. This time they sail
in a magic ship, which is stranded on the shoulders of a huge pike.
Wainamoinen kills this fish, and from i