Curse on thee, cruel iron   Curses on the steel thou givest   Curses on thee, tongue of evil   Curses on thy life forever!      Once thou wert of little value   Having neither form nor beauty   Neither strength noe great importance   When in form of milk thou rested   When for ages thou wert hidden   In the breasts of God's three daughters   Hidden in their heaving bosoms   On the borders of the cloudlets   In the blue vault of the heavens      Thou wert once of little value   Having neither form nor beauty   Neither strength nor great importance   When like water thou wert resting   On the broad back of the marshes   On the steep decline of the marshes   On the steep declines of mountains   When thou wert but formless matter   Only dust of rusty color      Curses on thee, cruel iron   Curses on the steel thou givest   Curses on thee, tongue of evil   Cursed be thy life forever!      Surely thou wert void of greatness   Having neither strength nor beauty   When the moose was trampling on thee   When the roebuck trod on thee   And the bear-paws scratched thy body      Surely thou hadst little value   When the skilful Ilmarinen   First of all the iron-workers   Brought thee from the blackened swamp-lands   Took thee to his ancient smithy   Placed thee in his fiery furnace      Truly thou hadst little vigor   Little strength, and little danger   When thou in the fire wert hissing   Rolling forth like seething water   From the furnace of the smithy   When thou gavest oath the strongest      By the furnace, by the anvil   By the rongs, and by the hammer   By the dwelling of the blacksmith   By the fire within the furnace      Curses on thee, cruel iron   Curses on the steel thou givest   Curses on thee, tongue of evil      Now forsooth thou hast grown mighty   Thou canst rage in wildest fury   Thou hast broken all thy pledges   All thy solemn vows hast broken   Like the dogs thou shamest honor   Shamest both thyself and kindred   Tained all with breath and evil      Tell all who drove thee to this mischief   Tell who taught thee thy malice   Tell who gavest thee thine evil!   Tell me! Now tell me!      Did thy father, or thy mother   Did the eldest of thy brothers   Did the youngest of thy sisters   Did the worst of all thy kindred   [Give to thee thine evil nature?]      Not thy father, nor thy mother   Not the eldest of thy sisters   Not the youngest of thy sisters   Not the worst of all thy kindred      But thyself hast done this mischief   Thou the cause of all our trouble   Come and view thine evil doings   And amend this flood of damage   Curses on thee, cruel iron   Curses on the steel thou givest   Curses on thee, tongue of evil   Cursed be thy life forever!