Hämehessä härkä synty
In the SKVR edition: Latvajärvi. Lönnrot A II 6, n. 106. - 1834. Arhippa Perttuńe.
SKVR textEnglish
1Hämehessä härkä synty,In Häme, a bull was born,
2Sonni Suomessa sikesi,A bull thrived in Finland,
3Häntä torkku Torneossa,Its tail dozed in Tornio,
4Pää keikku Kemijoella.Its head swayed at Kemijoki.
5Päivän lenti pääskylintuA swallow flew by day
6Härän sarvien väliä,Between the bull's horns,
7Kuukauen orava juoksiThe moon's squirrel ran
8Härän selkäluuta myöten,Along the bull's backbone,
9Sekä selkän että häntä.Both the back and tail.
10Tuotu ukko iskemäh,Brought the old man to strike,
11Virokannas viilemäh,Virokannas to cool,
12Palvanen pitelemäh;Palvanen to hold;
13Härkä päänsä häilähytti,The bull shook its head,
14Mustat silmänsä mulisti,Its black eyes glared,
15Ukko kuuseh kavahti,The old man leapt into a spruce,
16Palvanen pajuille pääsi,Palvanen reached willows,
17Virokan̄as vitsasille.Virokannas to twigs.
18- - virren laulajalle,To the song's singer,
19Saparo sanan sepille,A gift to word-smiths,
20Kuulla noien kultaseni,May my dear ones hear these,
21Tietä mielitehtoseni.Know my heart's wishes.
English translations by DeepSeek R1, provided by Lidia Pivovarova (University of Helsinki). AI-generated translations may contain inaccuracies.
The text is that of the SKVR digital edition of the Finnish Literature Society (SKS), with these changes:
- The editors’ signs inside the verses ([ ], ⌈ ⌉, *, [!], [?]) are left out, as in the poem reader; the letters they enclose are kept.
- The edition’s line numbers are replaced by a number on every verse, counted as in the poem reader.
Source
Text: SKVR (Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot), the digital edition of the Finnish Literature Society (SKS), licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Permanent address of this poem at SKS: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:sks-kvr-001053 · Read at SKS ↗
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