Tuuti, tuuti, lapsuttani!

SKVR I3 1833·Kontokki·1845·Collector: Europaeus, D. E. D.

In the SKVR edition: Akonlaksi. Europ. K, n. 123. 45.

SKVR textEnglish

1Tuuti, tuuti, lapsuttani!Hush, hush, my little child!

2Tules tuutuhun, unonen,Come into the cradle, little sleep,

3Käys, unonen, kätkyehen,Go, little sleep, into the crib,

4Pienen lapsen pieluxihin,To the swaddling of the small child,

5Vakahaisen vaattehisin!Into the steadfast swaddling clothes!

6Uni uuhella ajaa,Sleep drives on a sled-runner,

7Kiekkosarvella kekii,Sways with a curved runner-horn,

8Alta ikkunan kysyy:From beneath the window asks:

9"Onko lasta kätkyessä,"Is the child in the cradle,

10Pientä peitetten sioissa,The little one in the covers' folds,

11Vakahaista vaattehissa?"The steadfast one in the clothes?"

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.

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