The wooing rune turns abduction, and the bird at the end is a sentence. Refused by Louhi and by the girl herself, Ilmarinen "Quickly seized the trembling maiden", "Held her in his grasp of iron" [The Kalevala, Rune XXXVIII]. On the road she threatens escape-shapes — "I shall change to ocean-salmon" — and he caps each one: "As a pike I’ll fleetly follow" [ibid.]. Home at last, the blacksmith "Fell upon his couch in slumber", "And the maiden laughed derision" [ibid.]. Thompson's label has her "ravished by another man" while the hero sleeps — that is the label's summary, not our translation's scene, which gives the night only her mockery. At dawn even the sword refuses him — it "Was not born to drink the life-blood / Of a maiden pure and lovely" — so he sings instead: "Sang the maiden to a sea-gull", "Croaking from the ocean-ledges" [ibid.]. His own report to Wainamoinen closes the etiology: she screeches on the rocks, "Vainly calling for a suitor" [ibid.]. The gull's cry is a stolen girl's scorn made permanent — and the teller of the tale is the man who did it.