The "Kalevala" is full of wonderful stories, But in the above quotation, I want you to see how multiple it is, and yet it is beautiful.

Now there is a very interesting thing yet to tell you about this parallelism.

Such poems as those of the "Kalevala" have always to be sung not by one singer but by two.

The two singers straddle a bench facing each other and hold each other's hands.

Then they sing alternately, each chanting one line, rocking back and forward, pulling each other to and fro as they sing--so that it is like the motion of rowing.