Here's what I found from The Traditional poetry of the Finns by Comparetti. p 145 The fundamental rune is the Son of Kaleva's' (or of Kalervo's) Vengeance. This rune may be said, in a certain sense, to be double, for it has two very different forms; with 146 this in common, however, that they both treat of ven- geance. One relates how Kaleva's son, soon after he was born, rent his swaddling bands, broke his cradle, etc.; how he was sold to a smith whose wife used him as a shepherd and gave him a loaf with a stone inside, and how he re- venged himself by killing her.
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