"THE AGE OF IRON Episode Three" "I want to tell my life story myself." "I will not allow anyone else to do it." "Not a man or a woman." "I move so quickly that I am never seen after I have finished." "I leave when I have to." "In this instance I had to leave quickly." "Kyllikki was already in the sleigh, hidden under the covers." "She did not realise she was being taken away." "The only time in her life." "She was still laughing." "A noblewoman you got." "Better than yourself." "Like your father did." "Me." "I will be good to her, better." "She is a good one, you were lucky." "I took her." "There were other women too." "You had better not boast." "Improve your luck by building new rooms." "I am not a builder." "Your father said the same." "Like his father, the son got a wife of better ancestry." "Your father was always coming and going too." "Such a man will not build a house." "I will stay put." "We rode all night on the sleigh, slept there." "She wanted to see what I look like." "She was curious, I think." "I waited and wanted a man who looked like me." "Like a brother." "More beautiful but a man of my size." "Had you ordered him he would have been yours." "And of good ancestry." "I have not asked and you have not told me about your ancestry." "You will see it." "It is not a great one but I have a fiery sword with good ancestry." "What ancestry?" " Sword ancestry, of course!" "If you go to war you have no other family." "Not good." " Promise you will stay at home and not wander." "Whatever happens I swear I will not go to war." "I promise." "It was easy for me to swear." "A noblewoman you got." "Better than yourself." "Like your father did." "Me." "Are these the only ones?" "My life is not like that of others." "What did you say?" "It flows like a river - and you are the rock in the middle." "Summer is coming." "Girls usually gather at the village in the evenings." "I guess you have had enough of being a young girl." "I want to go." "Where is Kyllikki?" " Went to the village with your sister." "She did?" " Yes." "Then I will go too!" " Where are you going?" "I brewed you some beer." "Have some." "I will not die of thirst dressed like this." "The river has water." "I will drink it off the blade of a tarry paddle." "Will you not miss your woman?" "I will see if there is a woman who cares for me." " You have Kyllikki." "Had." "Do not go!" "I will wait for you forever fearing for your life!" "How will I know if you are alive?" "Or dead and to weep for you?" "You will know I have met my end - when the comb gushes with blood and the brush with gore." "Then you can weep!" "Where are you going?" "To war?" "Dressed like that." "Where have you been?" "A girls' night at the village?" "He wants to die at war - and get himself another woman." " To this cottage?" "There is plenty of room!" "One is at the village - another one at home!" "Third one is at the granary!" "Fourth one at the yard!" "Do not get more than you need." "Do not be greedy!" "What are you saying?" "Do not be greedy!" "Do not be greedy!" "Do not be greedy!" "She will - ripen slowly now." "On a soft fire." "On many evenings." "And nights." "Kyllikki will." "She will be ripe when I come back." "So I left." "I will not turn back." "No!" "We will see if there are women in the North " "made for me." "Only for me and no one else!" "There are fewer - but more exceptional women." "Better women." "There I will..." "He went to the North." "He caught the Devil's moose in the autumn." "He did not get a daughter of the North." "He was tasked to shoot a swan at the Tuonela river." "There he went." "I want to tell my life story myself." "I will not allow anyone else to do it." "Not a man or a woman." "As my son was leaving he saw an old man - and yanked his beard." "My son supposedly said: "Why do you not woo a daughter of the North?"" ""Every man does it."" "He laughed at two suitors standing at the cottage." ""What?" said the old man, neither hearing nor understanding." "But when he finally heard and understood he went on his final journey:" "To the Tuonela river." "That was the day." "I bowed three times." "And she lied to me three times - the Mistress of the North." "Search in the river." "In the bend of the river - and under it." "Search for your son in the deep waters " "if you can find him." "And if you find him you will not know him." "Thus my soul returned... from... its journey." "My soul returned from its journey - and I left." "I ran to the yard of the North, fighting and brawling." "So it was told but it was not true." "It did not happen like that." "A lot happened before that." "I was promised the one who was to bewed." "You were not invited." "No, I was not." "I came on my own, thirsty." "I will not forbid you to stand under a purlin at the door- between two pans, drinking water." "Water, at a wedding?" "Almost my own!" "Water from your palm!" "For me this is not worth fighting." "You are not man enough forme to kill you here in my yard." "You are not worth it to be butchered here." "Stop it when you can, leave when you want." "I will not teach you." "You will not understand." "If I kill you I have nothing to gain by it." "If you kill me what will you gain?" "You save your life but lose it." "You are always fighting, brawling." "You are always chasing women." "All of them!" "You will not get away so easily." "You have to die or leave." "Leave with your tail between your legs." "Now it is time to bring the water " "drink the water, wash my hands - wipe my sword of blood " "and say my thanks." "It is the blood of a bad man, an evil master." "My blood is no better." "The blood of a killer." "Who did you kill?" "The Master of the North." "Him I killed." "That I did and I do not know what to do." "Neither do I." "I will sleep on it and then leave." "I will sleep on it..." "and then leave." "Sleep then." "I do not know how." "I am afraid." "You sleep, I will stay up." "I will wake you if someone stirs outside." "Sleep." "Sleep." "Take your father's boat and go far!" "Stay away a long time!" "You go like your father, across nine oceans to an island there." "You will staythere for a year or two." "It will be good." "Young women with breasts of tin." "Come back then." "I will wait foryou." "I will be careful!" "I will sleep only on one side, one eye open - one ear to the ground." "Believe me!" "The wind" "Pushed" "The boat forward" "The ocean waves carried it" "The wind" "Pushed" "The boat forward" "On the clearback of the ocean" "Open seas" "On the clear back of the ocean Open seas" "Two moons passed" "Soon" "A third moon was almost over" "If you get to the island - remember to ask only one thing." "Nothing more." "Ask for everything undera roof." "Nothing else." "That you will get." "There the maidens sat" "By the ocean blue" "They were looking and gazing" "Their eyes toward the ocean blue" "Someone waited for her brother" "Someone waited for her father" "But all of them were waiting" "All of them were waiting" "Waiting for a man to come..." "Is there room on the island for an exile to hide - for a week- a month - maybe a year?" "Could I have a table before me - a roof over my head, and everything under it?" "Thus the lively Lemminkainen" "Went through the villages" "Delighting the maidens" "Enjoying the girls" "Thus the lively Lemminkainen" "The handsome Kaukomieli" "Got to eat till he was full" "To drink ale till he was happy" "At night he roamed around the island" "Delighting the maidens" "Enjoying the girls" "Thus the lively Lemminkainen" "The handsome Kaukomieli" "Asked for little, got much more" "Got the best without asking" "Thus the lively Lemminkainen" "The handsome Kaukomieli" "Asked for little, got much more" "Got the best without asking" "Sometimes this lively Lemminkainen, the handsome Kaukomieli wondered - how many of these girls were his father's daughters, his own sisters." "His father had not boasted much about it - but he was here for two summers, two springs - two winters and two autumns." "That is a long time." "You cannot touch your sister." "Not even in your dreams." "I try to be careful." "I too exist." "Come to the far end of the island - some day- or night." "He did not see a village Which had not three houses" "He did not see a village" "Which had not three houses" "He did not see a house" "Which had not three males" "He did not see a house" "Which had not three males" "He did not see a male Who did not sharpen his sword" "He did not see a male" "Who did not sharpen his sword" "They weep neither for the mast" "Nor the iron fittings" "They weep for he who steered" "And made the iron fittings" "The wind" "Pushed" "The boat forward" "By the ocean shore" "By the ocean shore" "Blue ocean" "Guests must always follow two customs." "Arriving and leaving." "Good customs." "I will hold onto them like my own life." "My only one." "That which burned was fit to be burned." "It was a good house, good enough." "It is even better now." "Bigger, dearer." "So it burned down?" "They burned it, the people of the North." "They were looking for you and found us." "I am glad it did not burn down on its own." "That someone burned it." "I will take revenge." "I will burn their houses down, take the money from the ruins." "Burn them down good and kill them all." "Or not." "Do not try anymore, just let it be." "Kill, kill." "Kill, kill." "Must you go?" " Yes!" "I will take Tiera with me." "He has been with me before." "There have to be two, more is too much." "He will not go." " Why not?" "He has a young wife." "He will not leave her." "Not yet." "He will not go with you." " A man will go to war - when he can, when he is taken." "He is in the yard already." "Not a word." "It is not worth it." "Do not ask me!" "I would have stayed, I would not have left - if you had not asked me." "I am not asking." "Since you are going, do not ever return." "Do not return in any form since you are leaving - and will not come back." "Do not return, do not remember me wherever you are going." "Look at me now so you do not have to remember me." "So I would not think it is you - whenever a twig catches my clothes in the forest." "So you will not blow smoke at me without coming back." "So you will not suddenly stop blowing like the wind - in the summer fields and not return." "Since you are going, go now." "Be well." "If your war and plundering are more a woman than me - then go ahead and take it, live with it." "I branded you for myself." "But a man is willing to trade all for a sackful of darkness- or a handful of ashes." "Name him after my father if he is a boy." "There are a hundred or a thousand women in the world - or hags, maidens, wives and widows, but you die only once." "Do not mourn women." "You will have all the women in the world but only one death." "When you die you will not need them." "Do not mourn before time." "If there were no women death would be nothing." "No need to fear it!" "Neither death nor women wait for you anywhere." "You cannot find them or pass them by." "Screenplay:" "Paavo Haavikko" "Music:" "Aulis Sallinen" "Production Designer:" "Ensio Suominen" "Director:" "Kalle Holmberg"