Once seeing it and knowing that this is true! So amazing! And yes this story is also written in the Kalevala epos: once the giant trees were growing towards the heaven, but then the small in comparison (but giant) men came with their copper choppers and cut down all the trees! (Tartaria?) And off course the story in the greec legends about the enormous ceders on the Libanon, that once caught fire after the son the of Helios (the sun god) stole the heavenly chariot of his father Helios, and burned down all the giant trees on the Libanon.