Tuonne ma sinun käsken

SKVR I4 575·Kontokki·1839·Collector: Castrén, M. A.

In the SKVR edition: Akonlaksi. Castrén n. 22 a). 39.

SKVR textEnglish

1Tuonne ma sinun käsken,There I command you,

2Tuonne ma sinun manoan;There I summon you;

3Kolm' on kuohua meressä,Three whirlpools are in the sea,

4Tuli kunki kuohun päässä,A fire at each whirlpool's edge,

5Mies kunki tulen nenässä,A man at each fire's front,

6Sill' on vartahat käessä,He holds guards in hand,

7Kussa hirvi, kussa härkä,There's an elk, there's an ox,

8Kussa pää valas kaloa,There a whale's head of fish,

9Ne on paistia parahat,Those are the finest roasts,

10Syöä miehen nälkähisen,To feed a hungry man,

11Haukata halun alasen.To sate a humble craving.

12Tuonne ma etc.There I [etc.]

13Tuonen mustah jokeh,To Tuoni's black river,

14Manalan alenteh,To Manala's slope,

15Sihin puut tyvin tuloo,There trees come root-first,

16Heinät latvoin lankiaa.Grasses bow crown-first.

17Tuonne ma etc.There I [etc.]

18Tuonne tunturin laelle,To the fell's peak,

19Siell' on luutonta lihoa,There lies boneless flesh,

20Suonetonta pohkioa.Veinless marrow.

21Tuonne ma etc.There I [etc.]

22Maksohin merimatehen,I paid the seaman,

23Merikoiran koukkoloihin,Into the sea-dog's hooks,

24Purstohon lohen punasen.Into the red salmon's maw.

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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