Canto 17.

See page 13.

As in the Kalevipoeg, Canto 13 ; and the story of the Gold-Spinners, &c.

Compare p. 121 (anteà). The bell is not mentioned elsewhere in this story.

A beer-barrel with a tap, for general use, often stands in the houses of the Esthonian peasantry.

"And as to the sword, if it be drawn against an army, and its bearer shake it, he will rout the army; and if he say to it at the time of his shaking it, 'Slay this army,' there will proceed from that sword a lightning which will slay the whole army."— Story of Joodar ( Thousand and One Nights ).

Compare the scene between the Kalevide and Tühi, in