Another familiar thing is the Kalevala's setting in an open wild country where anyone can build a farmstead and rule their individual lot in the vast forest. They talk a lot about herds and hives, and not much about war. It's a contrast from reading the Norse sagas. And heaven's arches to curve On the misty headland's tip At the foggy island's end. The generation before me might have used the word 'joker' in its place, but that's becoming dated now.
Colloquial language dates fast and the best kind is intensely local anyway.
And Finnish doesn't even have any close relatives in the European languages. Tricky to translate gracefully. Anyhow, I was using the Keith Bosley translation and once I got used to it, I loved it, though I did wonder how Tolkien might have done it. That is the way magic is practised in the Kalevala too. This is Vainamoinen, trying to find the spell to cure a wound.