"THE AGE OF IRON The Final Episode" "That winter the snow fell..." "horizontally." "It did not fall on the ground." "It lashed and tortured people." "It did not get to its grave." "I did not die at night." "I had to wake up again." "I felt a longing." "I headed to the sea shore." "As I walked " "I could feel spring coming." "I reached the shore." "I saw the ice had melted." "I looked at it." "It was a long winter." "A hell of a long winter." "It went on and on." "He drank." "I watched." "That giant Vipunen was a big one." "The one I visited." "The ceiling was really high - like in the belly of a big fish or a beggar's place." "It was one hell of a large Vipunen." "He walked on the frozen ridges." "They were once wrought by blinding storms." "He cursed at the shore." "And cursed." "It is my fault that summer is not here!" "Poverty and winter, I caused them." "Goddamn!" "They were self-inflicted." " Your chest does not shine with gold." "No silver to line your head." "No, not anymore." "It is no use waiting for a thief." "He will not come." "Not even him." "Leaves fell for many an autumn." "And the North's wealth increased." "They made their own money." "They had a big Sampo." "It was a money-spinner." "You could get a sack of grain with two coins." "Or one coin for a sack of grain." "You have to wonder about that." "When you deal with it, you are always short-changed." "If you have money, it does not want it." "If you have grain, it does not want that." "It shows how much grain it already has, so you do not get much money." "Self-made money." "People were used to trading centers being far away." "But this was close and from another world." "You did not have to go far to get robbed." "We became poorer." "You made it." "And a good one, too." " Which one?" "The Sampo." "The treasure chest." "The money-spinner." "You made it!" " You asked!" "Me?" "Let us take it back." "It has roots like a tooth." "It has roots!" "I made it." "You cannot remove it." "Or can you?" "Maybe." "No." "I doubt that." "Perhaps..." "No!" "It is behind three locks." "They have the key." "By land..." "Or by sea would you take it?" "We need four really strong men." "How many men do you have for this mission?" " I have men - and boats." "All we need is a blacksmith." "You." "They argued." "Ilmari swore." " I will not go to sea." "You cannot take it by land." " I will not go to sea." "In the summer or autumn?" "By land or by sea?" "Forge me a sword." "A big one!" "One wondered what he thought on a big mission like this." "Finally, I asked." "He replied." "The wind at sea smells different from the wind on the land." "The wind at sea smells different from the wind on the land." "That is all." "He breathed two different smells." "He does not sleep." "At night I heard him say:" " My soul went ahead, it died first." "I will follow." "Then he wrapped his cloak around himself and slept." "Everything is endangered." "Everything is endangered." "Happiness is everything." "Somebody told of a big sturgeon fish they had once encountered." "They ate pike." "The jawbone was on the ground." "Vainö spoke." " Many fish have passed through that." "Vainö left." "He made a fife and played it." "It made a small sound." "Why did he leave?" "He became a demigod nonetheless." "Subject to the wrath of the gods and the envy of men - and the envy of the gods and the wrath of men." "I was asked if I was on that mission." "I was." "I was asked if I saw the big fish." "I must admit that I saw the fish - and the instrument he made from the jawbone." "When he played, the sea became quiet." "Fish and birds listened." "I was asked if he put the Northeners to sleep with his music - before stealing the Sampo." "It was a long time ago but I do remember something:" "It was not like that." "How could he have told them they were liars talking about him?" "He had to give in." "He made the great instrument - that put them to sleep." "They stole the Sampo at night." "No one believes the truth." "I will tell you what the story has become after many years." "What will happen to us?" "Maybe they will give it to us." "Or at least half of it." " You will never have what is yours." "You do not have a shield." " No." "Nor two lives." "Just one." "It is almost over." "Since you have no shield." "It took us three days." "Then we were there." "You have the Sampo we gave you." "We have the poverty you gave us." "It will not do." " No, you cannot have it back." "It is somewhere safe, hidden deep." "It works perfectly." "Spinning out money." "It is mine." "I will not give it to you." " Give us some, half." "Give us half of it." "The money-spinner." "Self-made." " No!" "Goddamn!" "When you ask for what is yours, you do not get it!" "I asked for half of it." "I will take it all!" "Let me tell." "I was there Let me tell about it." "Shall I allow him to speak?" "He will tell." "He knows everything." "He was not involved." "He remembers better." "Vainö put these men to sleep by playing the fife." "One by one." "No!" "Why did you raise your shield?" "Raise your spear!" "But there were two strong men and two weak ones." "The strong men carried the Sampo after Ilmari broke the lock." "The weak ones had to stand against the soldiers." "They had to be quick." "The Sampo was taken." "It was placed on top of two tree trunks with its roots." "It was to be carried to the shore." "The bird screamed." "Row!" "Then Vainö shouted." " Throw it overboard!" "Do it!" "Sever it from its roots and throw it overboard!" "Throw it!" "Ilmari severed the roots and held it." "Vainö gave an order." " Throw it!" "How meaningless, how insignificant - this mission would have been if they had had the Sampo?" "If they had brought it back." "Luckily, they did not have to come home at once." "They got lost." "It was a long journey." "It lasted a long time." "Autumn came, winter came." "They reached an island in a snowstorm." "When they woke up the next morning - somebody came running and said he had found something." "It was the frozen skin of a moose." "Covered in snow, near an extinguished fire." "They all went there." "They took the skin." "It was not light." "It was damn heavy." "When they reached home, they also had a bear carcass." "It was a bear." "An autumn bear caught in a trap." "I do not remember what kind." "It died when an arrow pierced its skin." "There was blood." "A bear which ate berries." "Maybe it fell into a trap hole - and on the spear at the bottom of the hole." "It was dead." "They carried it." "It was their catch." "They carried it into a house." "That is what they got - from this mission." "They carried it as if it was the spoils of that mission." "Great, you are here." "We have been expecting you." "The party cannot start - until you are here." "The forest is your home." "This is your house." "I was the master here." "Now it is your turn." "I do not know what you are thinking." "You do not know what I am thinking." "We met in the world." "Hello." "Itis so." "Everything is endangered." "Happiness is everything." "To your happiness, king of the forest." "We did not kill you No we did not" "We did not kill you No we did not" "You fell into a hole You did" "You fell into a trap You did" "So we did not kill you We did not" "We did not kill you No we did not" "We brought you here" "We brought you here To your house" "Alas, you were not killed." "We weep for you." "We mourn, we lament." "Listen." "This loud." "What has four legs?" "What has four legs?" "A table, a bed" "A table, a bed" "A table, a bed" "A bed, a bear" "I sat in the middle at the bear's wedding." "The bear - scared me." "Are you afraid of him?" "Let me speak on your behalf." "The subordinate of death raises his hand without fear to drink." "But the immortals are afraid." "Always." "Marry the moose if you are afraid of the bear." "I sat in the middle." "Everybody started whispering to me, scheming." ""You made the Sampo, why not make another?"" "Why not?" " It would not be the same." "You cannot make it or not make it." "Do it!" "Do it!" "I have always made the impossible." "No one else does it!" "One impossible job after another." "More and more." "I have forged them with these hands all my life!" "I forged a woman when I lost one." "I made her myself." "I forged the Sampo." "With these hands of mine!" "Was my life just that?" "Nothing else?" "It was not much." "I have made myself poor." "It was self-inflicted." "I have always done the impossible." ""I guess I can do it."" "Well, I cannot." "Not anymore." "Never again." "I would not try it again." "I would live another life." "No, I would not." "I would not change anything." "My destiny cannot be altered." "One cannot make or forge ones life." "It makes you." "Your happiness beats and hurts you without pity." "But diligently." " Leave then." "Leave this world." "Go." "Go!" "You cannot get rich in the world." "You became poorer and poorer after going through each door." "Do not say it." "Go." "It does a man good." "Go without complaining." "A door, a bed and a grave - are as wide as mans shoulders." "They are made for you." "The world is like that." "A door, a bed and a grave will have you." "When you go through a door, the world is before you." "It is big - so when you came back you have nothing to tell." "It is all the same." "You will not find anything." "In bed, you can find yourself." "At night, with a real woman." "That is another world." "In the morning you knock on the bed to wake up and go out to the world." "You have to go somewhere, do something." "Yes." "A grave is made for you, too." "Everybody and nobody is there." "Do not tell this to one who does not know." "You know already!" "You once got a woman back to you for one night." "Who went to sea." "She rose from the water." "She had things to do." "She was a virgin." "The sea will not give any other." "Not even to you." "Your happiness is made of gold!" "What do you know!" "You just talk, sing and speak nonsense!" "Your happiness fished that girl for you for one night." "Just once." "I have seen you on the shore - wondering if she gets cold under water in winter." "I know." "You will not - ask for it." "You have forged that thought of gold and silver in your head." "That thought cannot escape anymore." "Escape your mind." "The gates to your mind would break- if you tried it." "I know it." "You have forged it inside your mind." "I sat in the middle." "I sat in the middle." "Listening." "He spoke to me, thatman." "You want to sleep - after you have eaten." "Sleep in bed." "I will guard yoursleep." "Both ofyou." "No one will bother you." "I sat in the middle." "There was a bed there." "Close - to me." "To me." "What" "Has" "Four legs?" "A table" "A bed" "A bed" "A bear" "They waited for me to go to bed." "I hesitated." "I felt I had done this before." "There never was any room for the bear." "He stole the bears role!" "He lay down next to her!" "The girl had been given to the bear!" "He stole the bears role." "He played bear so well that he could do it." "He spoke to himself when he stole its role." "At the dinner table and in bed." "He spoke:" ""You have to play a man or it does not exist."" ""I play a man who does not exist."" ""Now I have to play a bear, assume its destiny."" ""I will take its immortal mask and bow before it."" ""An immortal took the form of an animal, died - was resurrected and sat at a table."" ""I offered it food and drink."" ""One dead, one immortal."" ""I have to bow down before it, I have to play its part."" ""It must not die."" ""He took its form and died and did not die."" "He conquered death by dying" ""I played its part before it."" ""I played a man before it and before people."" ""Not because of it or myself or others." "Just because."" "Both the moose and the bear got wives on the same day." "So it was told." "Still, it is true." "True!" "True!" "True." "True!" "The same man, yet not." "I was there." "Remember." "I sat at the table." "Do not forget." "I sat in the middle." "Yes." "You were on that mission too." "So..." "Forge me a sword." "Forge..." "Make..." "I cannot do it anymore." "I do not know how." "I am too tired." "Well - what kind?" "Tell me!" " A pick." "A spike." "Which looks like this!" "The kind which I can use to break down Sigtuna's gates - and churches." "You can come too with your pick." "We wil leave soon." "Next summer!" "It is that year!" "When do you want it done?" "The pick?" " Have it ready before we attack the capital of Sweden." "Make it sharp!" "I want to carry the bishop's head on it." "I want to carry the bishop's head on it." "Make the handle sturdy." "I want the gates opened safely." "You can never have anything for free." "But we will give the gate to the people of Novgorod." "For their church." "We do not need a door, we do not live in a church." "It was Hurjala." "He said..." " Do not lie!" "I was there!" "I was." "Look closely." "It is the biggest enterprise ever." "It is so big that if it succeeds, no one will remember it." "Yes, they will." "It will succeed." "Always." "It will never be forgotten." "Remember that, poet!" "Well, the mission was successful - and it was forgotten." "It was too good to be true." "It was forgotten." "Forgotten." "But the unexplainable sweetness of defeat made it possible - that the theft ofthe Sampo was remembered." "I sang about the mission including Lemminki in it." "He wanted it." "Do you want to know how you die?" " Yes." "When you die, you will never see - or hold a woman again." "Not even in your dreams." "I died once." "Are you not afraid?" " Yes, I am." "Of what?" "Death?" "That the lights go out?" "When a man is struck, his throat slit?" "The world becomes a blur, hands and feet convulse - words are cut off." "Are you afraid ofit?" "That the lights go out?" "No." "Not much." "A little." "Let them go out." "Let the darkness come." "The snow is warm." "I have been afraid of three things." "Death, poverty - and love." "I have endured them." "Those three I was afraid of." "Death, poverty and love." "It was for nothing." "I am not afraid anymore." "I do not remember which I was the most afraid of." "I am not afraid - of becoming helpless." "At the mercy of others." "Death." "Am I afraid of it?" "Why should I?" "It can do its work." "It will not forget it." "I did not have a bad life." "I have seen worse." "It was not that bad." "It has taken all it gave." "We are even." "It was not a bad life." "I did everything." "Let death do its work." "I want to sleep." "Very.... ...long." "Very long." "I am tired." "Screenplay:" "Paavo Haavikko" "Music:" "Aulis Sallinen" "Production Designer:" "Ensio Suominen" "Director:" "Kalle Holmberg" "Subtitles:" "Arto Vartiainen Broadcast Text"