In the Finnish witness the forest is a sown crop with a named sower. Wainamoinen, on a bare island, thinks "at last of Pellerwoinen, / First-born of the plains and prairies" — the slender boy Sampsa — to seed the land [The Kalevala, Rune II]. The planting is silviculture in verse, species matched to soil: "On the firm soil sows the acorns, / Fir-trees sows he on the mountains", "Birches sows he in the marshes, / In the loose soil sows the alders", lindens in the lowlands, junipers on the hills [ibid.]. One tree fails and thereby earns a second, stranger origin: "But the oak-tree has not sprouted, / Tree of heaven is not growing", until a sea-giant burns the water-maidens' raked hay and "In the leaves he plants an acorn" in the ashes [ibid.]. That ash-born oak overgrows the sky — "With its branches hides the sunlight" — and must be felled by a copper-clad pigmy grown gigantic before "Groves arose in varied beauty" [ibid.]. Trees have two origins on this one page: broadcast like barley by a child, and — for the king of trees — an over-successful fertilizer accident that nearly cost the world its light. Thompson's Finnish row is this rune, wired and verified.