wise man

That is the reason, why some say, that the wiseman liveth as long as he ought, and not so long as he can.

Steady old Väinämöinen / the everlasting wise man [translating tietäjä] / was driving along his roads / pacing out his ways / in those glades of Väinö-land / on the Kalevala heaths.

Some of the other charms employed by the wise men had a more tangled pedigree.