Syöjätär vesillä synty
In the SKVR edition: Sappovaara. Niemi n. 148. 04. Hilippä Huotarińi. - Mp. Akonlahdessa.
SKVR textEnglish
Mavon synty.
1Syöjätär vesillä synty,Syöjätär was born on the waters,
2Lapalivo lainnehilla,At Lapalivo on the billows,
3Siitä pitkäksi piti,From there it grew long,
4Pajun karvańi pani,It set the willow's hair [as its own],
5Vesi pitkäksi veteli,The water drew it long,
6Kuu sen teki kuulakaks',The moon made it round,
7Päivä paisto pehmiäks'.The sun softened it tender.
8Mist' on peä pahalla pantu?Where was the head placed with evil?
9Peä pantu pataremusta.The head was placed from pot-soot's blackness,
10Mist' on silmät siunaeltu?Where were the eyes blessed?
11Silmät on heinän siemenistä.The eyes are from hay's seeds,
12Mist' on kieli keisoaltu?Where was the tongue taken from?
13Kieli on keion kenkulasta,The tongue is from the meadow's brink,
14Okahista Tuonen otran.From the awn of Tuoni's barley.
15Mullan muikku, maan silahka,Earth's vendace, land's slippery one,
16Lehon lempi lierukaińi,The meadow's beloved twiner,
17Puun juuren pujottelia,Threader through tree roots,
18Läpi mättähän mäńiä,Traveler through the knoll,
19Kuka siun kulosta nosti,Who lifted you from the ditch,
20Heinän juuresta herättiAwoke you from the hay's root,
21Ylemmäksi heinän juurta?Higher than the hay's root?
22Juopa viinana vihas',Let the drink [flow] as wine in wrath,
23Oluona omat pahas'!As beer, your own evils!
24Tuop' on turvo tuskihis',That is the swelling in your pains,
25Paisu pakkopäivihis',The bulge in your coerced days,
26Haluhuisi halkie!Would that it split apart!
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.
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-002744 · Read at SKS ↗
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