This is very patched! I'll explain at the end of the page.
 Kasvata Jumala lasta Itselleni turvaks' Saunaa lämmitämään Lasta kylvettämään Mansikka mäellä huusi: Tule neiti noppimahan Punaposki poimimaan Ennen kun etana syöpi Mato musta muikkajaa! Makkaa pois kun marjat kypsyyt Siit vast' nouse noppimaa Marjetta korea kuopus Punanen marja Jonka nielas Silloi on Luoja syntyny Vapahtaja valjenut Päästäny Luoja lukoin takoo Maamme manteren |
Raise a child, God For the protection of myself To warm a sauna To bathe a child A strawberry yelled on a hill: "Come pick me, maiden Come glean me, red cheeks Before a slug eats me A black snake snacks me! Lie away as the berries as ripening Only then rise to pick" Marjetta, beautiful lastborn Red berry Which she swallowed Then the Creator was born The Saviour lightened up The Creator let him for behind the lock The continent of our land |
It's obviously very Christianized, let me explain. This combines elements from Marjavirsi "Berry Song" and Saunanhakuvirsi "The Song of Looking for a Sauna". The former describes a maiden being impregnated from eating a berry, and the latter describes the birth of Jesus in its very own, totally changed and fit into Finnish mythology setting, way. Indeed, as the child born here is clearly Jesus, in many runosongs, it was also understood that the child coming from that berry-pregnancy is Jesus as well. This is also the version used in the Kalevala. However, it's not so simple.
In a runosong from an unknown place (but at least partially Karelian) it is said that Ukko and Akka decided to make a "son of fire". It is made clear that Ukko is the same as Virankannos, and I personally believe Akka is Päivätär as she is called the creator of fire. Then, a maiden that was picking cloudberries becomes pregnant with the child, giving birth to it in Pohjola. This lines up perfectly with Panu (who was physically given birth to by Lemmes), and quite frankly would describe Lemminkäinen adequetly as well. Therefore, instead of Jesus, the one born could be Finland's very own Son of God who will rise from the dead.
Not that that is the only version. In another, the maiden who ate the berry gives birth to three children, who Virankannos arrives to baptize as Väinämöinen, Ilmarinen and Joukahainen. This would explain why Väinämöinen is called the Son of the Sun; not from being literally given birth to by Päivätär, but her having a hand in the pregnancy. As for the other two, evidence is less solid: Ilmarinen is mixed up with Väinämöinen to the point it's difficult to tell which myth belongs to which, and Ilmarinen was also the original sky god before the position was taken over by Ukko. While Joukahainen is sometimes called the brother of Väinämöinen, he is also implied to be a son of Louhi. But considering Louhi also gave virgin births... No wonder she's pissed off at Päivätär who just shows up to zap people pregnant out of nowhere.
It's not so far fetched, you know! Väinämöinen or Vankamoinen is also called a "son of Ukko", as well as a son of Kaleva. But if it requires for a deity to have no physical part in the pregnancy and be still considered a parent, this is no issue at all. Väinämöinen is said to have been born from a Maiden of North who was impregnated by waves, but we know this myth originates from Louhi giving birth to the diseases of the world. The myth is very similar to the birth of the father of Väinämöinen, called Kave-ukko, who seems to have been born from Maatar or another women via means that could be virgin birth (it's not specified). I have long wondered about this Kave-ukko, as runosongs more often speak of Kave-eukko, the Sky Maiden. Could it be rather that Kave-eukko gave birth to Väinämöinen after being impregnated by waves of the sea giant Kaleva, but that the reason why this happened was made possible by Ukko and Päivätär, which is why he would be called the son of Ukko and the Sun as well? After all, though called Marjetta here, and Maaria and Iro (Mary and Saint Irene) in some Karelian runosongs, the maiden who eats the berry is also called Kapo.
But these are just my theories, of course.
People have made some interesting observations on this "Marjetta" based on the runosongs, including the Christianized ballads. Whether she is the mother of Panu, Lemminkäinen, Jesus, or someone else is irrelevant in this moment. She is described as a maiden who has kept her virginity and in fact, she is already getting kind of old when compared to when people usually got married. This is something that would've been quite shameful from the perspective of society where everyone was expected to get married and if you didn't, that was seen as your personal failure. Though she is called the lastborn here, there are (seemingly?) Karelian songs that state the opposite: she is the eldest. Still, Marjetta is very strong-willed. All despite everyone seeing her as a bit of a weirdo.
What a show of respect towards her, then, that she would be considered "worthy" of giving birth to such a divine child. Clearly the gods did not have an issue with her. Humans are another matter: she must've looked like a sinful adulterer, further judged by the people around her. I think this an important thing to remember when it comes to you if you are seen as "weird" by other people: this does most likely not extent to the opinions of the divine.
They do still kind of come off as dicks for putting her through that though.