Ota, lempo, leukaluusi
In the SKVR edition: Kivijärvi. Marttińi n. 353. 00. Niemen Matin vaimo (= Ol'ona Lesońi).
SKVR textEnglish
Hampaan särky luku.
1Ota, lempo, leukaluusi,Take, Lempo, your jawbone,
2Kiverät kovertimesi,[Take] the helmets you carved,
3Syömästä, kaluamasta,From eating, from harming,
4Jyvemästä, jäytämästä!From gnawing, from grinding!
English translations by DeepSeek R1, provided by Lidia Pivovarova (University of Helsinki). AI-generated translations may contain inaccuracies.
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-002970 · Read at SKS ↗
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