The Finnish anchor is the poem's last rune, and it gives the departure its full grammar: succession, exit by sea, promised return, and a bequest. A wonder-child born to the virgin Mariatta is condemned by Wainamoinen — "Since the child is but an outcast" — yet baptized "King and Master of Karyala" [The Kalevala, Rune L]. The old singer, displaced, "Recognized his waning powers", "Sang himself a boat of copper", and left his people: "Westward, westward, sailed the hero" [ibid.]. The going is conditional: "Then will Suomi need my coming", he sings, promising "That I may bring back the Sampo" [ibid.]. And the departure endows: "But he left his harp of magic" — his songs — "To the lasting joy of Suomi" [ibid.]. The culture hero does not die; he is superseded (the baptism scene is the poem's Christian seam) and withdraws seaward with return held in reserve. Thompson's Irish (Cross) and Indic (Thompson-Balys) rows for this address are parsed but unwired; the one served witness happens to be the genre's complete specimen.