[304.] When the inferior deities are deaf or too weak, the heroes appeal to the higher Gods.
[305.] The reference here seems to be to Gen. vii. 11. "The whole passage is of Christian origin." (K. K.)
RUNO XV
[7.] Compare Homer, Iliad, III., 311-314.
[240.] This episode slightly resembles the story of Isis and Osiris.
[498.] The constellation of Orion is variously called by the Finns, the Moonshine, the Sword of Kaleva, and the Scythe of Väinämöinen.
[559-562.] This conceit is common in fairy tales (especially in Russian ones) in the case of heroes wakened from the dead. Sometimes it takes a comic form; and sometimes, as in the present case, a pathetic one.
[617.] "Dirty-nosed" is a common opprobrious expression in Esthonia.