Tuuti lasta, tuuti pientä!
In the SKVR edition: Vuonn. Voutila n. 7. 13. Ańńi Lehtońi. - Mp. Oulussa.
SKVR textEnglish
Nukutuslauluja.
1Tuuti lasta, tuuti pientä!Rock the child, rock the little one!
2Uinota, Jumala, lasta,Lull to sleep, God, the child,
3Makatteles, Moarieni!Make [the child] lie down, my little Mary!
4Tuuti lasta lapsin kaksin,Rock the child with two children,
5Tule sie, Jesus, kolmanneksi,Come you, Jesus, as the third,
6Neitsyt Moarie neljänneksi,Virgin Mary as the fourth,
7Iso viisas viijenneksi,The great wise one as the fifth,
8Emo kutjus kuuvenneksi,Mother summoned as the sixth,
9Seitsemänneksi, Jumala!As the seventh, God!
10Uni uuhella ajeli,Sleep rode on a foal,
11Herasilmällä hevolla,On a sharp-eyed horse,
12Laukkapeällä lampahalla,On a galloping-headed sheep,
13Kiherällä kiijätteli.Hurried with a swift steed.
14Uni ulkuvo kyseli,Sleep the wanderer asked,
15Alta akkunan aneli:Beneath the window pleaded:
16"Onko lasta kätkyessä,"Is there a child in the cradle,
17Lasta pientä peittosessa,A little one under the cover,
18Vakavaista vaipan alla?"The sacred one under the cloth?"
19"On nyt lapsi kätkyössä,"Yes, the child is in the cradle,
20Lasta pientä peitellään,The little one is being wrapped,
21Vakavaista varjellaan."The sacred one is being shielded."
22Mie nyt laulan lapsellani,I now sing with my child,
23Pien iluva pienelläni,Delighting the little one with my smallness,
24Eipä tässä lautsat laulaHere the floorboards don’t sing,
25Eikä ikkunat iluoile,Nor do the windows rejoice,
26Kun ei laulane lautsalliset,Since the floor-dwellers don’t sing,
27Ikkunalliset iluoile.The window-dwellers don’t rejoice.
28Mie laulan laiha luotu,I sing, a gaunt being,
29Mie veretöin veiottelen,I enchant, bloodless one,
30Laulan laihoilla lihoilla,I sing with lean flesh,
31Kupehilla kuuttomilla,With hips devoid of fat,
32Laulelen kun lammin lumme,I sing like warm snow,
33Vejen lumme veijottelen.I enchant the water’s frost.
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 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-002050 · Read at SKS ↗
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