So he takes the wife of silver, the bride of gold, to the wisest of heroes, Wainamoinen, and offers her to him as a gift.

But the hero will have no such gift, "Throw her back into your forged fire, O Ilmarinen," the hero makes answer--"What greater folly, what greater sorrow can come upon man than to love a wife of silver, a bride of gold ?" This pretty story needs no explanation; the moral is simply "Never marry for money." Then there is the story of Lemminkainen (this personality suggested the Pau-puk-keewis of Longfellow)--the joyous, reckless, handsome, mischievous pleasure-lover,--always falling into trouble, because he will not follow his mother's advice, but always loved by her in spite of his follies.

The mother of Lemminkainen is a more wonderful person than the mother of Kullervo.

Her son has been murdered, thrown into a river--the deepest of all rivers, the river of the dead, the river of hell.

And his mother goes out to find him.