Maata maallisen pitää
In the SKVR edition: Tetriniemi. Meril. n. 2294. 89. Lari Artemjeff.
SKVR textEnglish
Lapsessa, jos on joku liika itkettäjä, niin äiti ottaa tulisia hiiliä pelkalle ja sillä hiili pelkalla kiertää kätkyen ja sanoo:
1Maata maallisen pitää,The earthly one must lie down,
2Syyvä syyllisen pitää,The guilty one must consume,
3Juuva julkikasvajaisen,The one with a visible affliction must drink,
4Ei itkeä isän sylissä,One must not weep in the father's lap,
5Parkua äitin paarmahilla;Nor wail at the mother’s mosquito-place;
6Anna itkeä itikan,Let the tiny insect weep,
7Parkua pahan penikan.Let the wicked little beast wail.
Sitten ne hiilet viskataan kylän tielle.
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-003057 · Read at SKS ↗
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