-THE HEROES AND THE WATER-DEMON 64

CANTO XI.--THE LOSS OF THE SWORD 72

CANTO XII.--THE FIGHT WITH THE SORCERER'S SONS 80

CANTO XIII.--THE KALEVIDE'S FIRST JOURNEY TO HADES 87

CANTO XIV.--THE PALACE OF SARVIK 94

CANTO XV.--THE MARRIAGE OF THE SISTERS 105

CANTO XVI.--THE VOYAGE OF THE KALEVIDE 110

CANTO XVII.--THE HEROES AND THE DWARF 119

CANTO XVIII.--THE KALEVIDE'S JOURNEY TO PORGU 124

CANTO XIX.--THE LAST FEAST OF THE HEROES 129

CANTO XX.--ARMAGEDDON 135

_PART II_

ESTHONIAN FOLK-TALES

SECTION I

TALES ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE "KALEVIPOEG"

THE MILKY WAY 147

THE GRATEFUL PRINCE 152

THE CLEVER COUNTRYWOMAN 186

SLYBOOTS 187

THE HOUSE-SPIRIT 207

THE GOLD-SPINNERS 208

SECTION II

ORPHAN AND FOUNDLING STORIES

THE WOOD OF TONTLA 237

THE KING OF THE MISTY HILL 259

THE ORPHAN'S HANDMILL 260

THE ORPHAN BOY AND THE HELL-HOUNDS 261

THE EGG-BORN PRINCESS 273

THE ROYAL HERD-BOY 279

TIIDU, THE FLUTE-PLAYER 303

THE LUCKY EGG 308

THE MAGICIAN IN THE POCKET 321

THE GOD-DAUGHTER OF THE ROCK-MAIDENS 321

THE FOUNDLING 321

PREFACE

When I took up the study of the _Kalevala_ and Finnish literature, with
the intention of publishing a critical English edition of the poem, on
which I am still engaged, the accumulation of the necessary materials
led me to examine the literature of the neighbouring countries likewise.
I had expected to find the _Kalevipoeg_ an Esthonian variant of the
_Kalevala_; but I found it so dissimilar, and at the same time so
interesting, when divested of the tedious and irrelevant matter that has
been added to the main story, that I finally decided to