Kyni kulki kankahia
In the SKVR edition: Uhut. Europæus K, n. 231. 46.
SKVR textEnglish
1Kyni kulki kankahia,Kyni traversed the heaths,
2Kyni kylvi kyniänsä,Kyni sowed his clawed seeds,
3Siitä kasvo huonot hongat,From there sprouted ill-fated pines,
4Siitä pehmiät petäjätFrom there, soft feeble pines,
5Kynimyksen kynistä.Born of Kyni's clawed labor.
6Jos lienet pahoa tehnyt,If you have wrought evil deeds,
7Verta latvas' vuotakohon,May blood drip from the treetops,
8Mettä tyves työntäköhön!Honey surge through the roots below!
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-002449 · Read at SKS ↗
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