Antero Vipunen

 

Vipunen in songs was famous,

Full of craft the aged hero;

With his songs he lay extended,

Outstretched with his spells of magic.

On his shoulders grew an aspen,

From his temples sprang a birch-tree,

On his chin-tip grew an alder,

On his beard a willow-thicket,

On his brow were firs with squirrels,

From his teeth sprang branching pine-trees.