This fiery mouthful, however, proves so uncomfortable, that the fish swims madly around until swallowed by another.

Learning that the fire-ball is now in a pike, Wainamoinen fishes until he secures that greedy denizen of the deep.

Opening his quarry, he seizes the lightning, which burns his fingers so badly that he drops it, until he decides to convey it to his people in the wood of an elm.
_Rune XLIX._ Although fire is thus restored to mankind, the sun and the moon are still missing.

Ilmarinen therefore forges a magnificent silver moon and golden sun, in the vain hope of replacing the orbs which Louhi has stolen, and which are hidden in the cave where she once treasured the Sampo.

Discovering this fact by magic means, Wainamoinen starts out in quest of sun and moon, and, by changing himself into a pike to cross the river, reaches the land of Louhi, defeats her sons, and finds the orbs he is seeking guarded by a multitude of snakes.