[199, 200.] She already recognizes her unborn son as an Avatar.
[289.] The word here rendered "hapless" properly means "little."
[465.] This is the only passage in the Kalevala in which Väinämöinen is spoken of as ever having been young; though he is occasionally called young in variants.
[465-468.] This passage apparently alludes to Väinämöinen having sent Ilmarinen to Pohjola by a trick.
[471-474.] This must allude either to the fate of Aino, or to some story not included in the Kalevala.
[501.] In Esthonian legends, Vanemuine is not an Avatar and culture-hero, but the God of Music, who withdrew from men on account of the ribaldry with which some of his hearers received his divine songs. (Hero of Esthonia, II., pp. 80-85.) Longfellow also makes Hiawatha depart in a boat after the conclusion of his mission.
[613, 614.] These expressions remind us of the Buddha "breaking down the rafters and the roof-tree" preparatory to reaching Nirvano.