The Sampo - A Wonder Tale of the Old North

This is a tale which the runolainen of the far North used to sing in hovel and hall, and which the heroes of primeval times learned by heart and taught to their children. He has combined various parts, as pleased his fancy, into one complete harmonious fabric, and, [vi]while he has retained much of the original warp and woof, he has added various and many colorings and connecting threads of his own invention. In doing this he has merely exercised the time-honored right of poets and story-tellers—the right to make new cloth out of old.