Mie laulan lajia tuota
In the SKVR edition: Uhut? Cajan n. 31. 36.
SKVR textEnglish
1Mie laulan lajia tuota,I sing that song type,
2Tuota syytä syyättelen,I accuse that cause,
3Kun otti olut hapata,When the beer turned sour,
4Tahto taari tyyräellä,The will to tilt the barrel,
5Siitä juossa miesten juoma.Hence flows the men's drink.
6Laulasin hyvänki virrenI sang even a good hymn,
7Hyvän syömän syötyö,The good food has been eaten,
8Hyvän juoman juotuoni,The good drink has been drunk,
9Puhtukaisen purtuoni,The pure one has been bitten,
10Ku on joukossa ilona,As there is joy in the crowd,
11Ravintona rahvahassa.As nourishment among the people.
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13Mehiläinen meiän lintu,Bee, our bird,
14Lennä siipesi simah,Fly your wings into the mead,
15Sulkasi sulah voih!Let your feathers flow with butter!
16Täss' on joukossa ilona,Here is joy in the crowd,
17Ravintona rahvahassa.As nourishment among the people.
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19En tiiä poloni poika,I don't know, my son's son,
20Kun ei otettu oluttupah,When not taken to the beer-house,
21Eikä pantu pöyän peähän,Nor placed at the table's head,
22Lasettu rahin keselle.Poured onto the threshing floor,
23Orsi juokohon olosen,Let the beam run bare,
24Kurkihirret kuivatkahat,Let the drying poles dry,
25Lakiainen lappakahat!Let the snowdrifts collapse!
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.
- The editors’ notes, and the marks in the verses that point to them, are left out; they can be read at SKS.
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-001526 · Read at SKS ↗
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