Oli ennen neljä neittä

SKVR I4 814·Kontokki·1904·Collector: Niemi, A. R.

In the SKVR edition: Sappovaara. Niemi n. 143. 04. Hilippä Huotarińi. - Mp. Akonlahdessa.

Song types: Pistoksen synty, Pistos

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1Oli ennen neljä neittä,There once were four maidens,

2Neljä neittä, kolme naista,Four maidens, three women,

3Koko kolme morsienta.All three brides.

4Lähettih hyö heinän niittoh;They sent them to mow hay;

5Minp' on niitti, sen harasi,My son mowed, that one raked,

6Kaikki karhiella veteli,All dragged with a rake,

7Satasilla soaprasilla,With hundreds of sables,

8Tuhansilla tukkusilla.With thousands of bundles.

9Tuli Turjan lappalaińi,Came a Turja Lapplander,

10Poltti heinäset poroksi,Burned the hay to ashes,

11Tuonne tuuli tuhkan viepi;There the wind bore the ashes;

12Voaran vankan liepieh,To the mountain's strong slope,

13Noroho ylentäjäh.The young grass sprouting.

14Siitä kasvo kaunis tammi,From there grew a fair oak,

15Vesa verratoin yleni,A sapling unmatched arose,

16Oksat ilmoilla ojenti,Branches stretched to heavens,

17Lehvät ilmoilla levisi,Leaves spread through the skies.

18Kielti päivän paistamasta,It barred the sun from shining,

19Kuuhuon kumottamasta,The moon from gleaming,

20Kielti pilvet juoksomasta,Barred clouds from racing,

21Hattarat hatšattamasta,Mists from drizzling.

22Vilu vil'l'alla tulou,Chill came with coldness,

23Kamala vejen kalallaTerrible on water's fish,

24Ilman päivän paistamatta,Without the sun shining,

25Kuuhuon kumottamatta.Without the moon gleaming.

[Ss. 26-49 on painettu Venepuun etsintä-runoon, ks. VLR I, n. 337].

26Ite noin sanoikse virkki:He himself spoke these words:

27"Noista nuolia tulis'"From those, arrows would come

28Oksista tulisen tammen,From the fiery oak's branches,

29Äkähistä puun punasen."From the wrathful red tree."

30Paha peäty kuulomassa,The evil lord heard,

31Kolm' on poikoa pahalla;Three sons he had, evil ones;

32Yks' on rujo, toińi rampa,One was ugly, another lame,

33Kolmas on perisokie.The third was wholly mad.

34Rampa nuolia vanuu,The lame shaped arrows,

35Rujo jousta jännitšöö,The ugly bent the bow,

36Ampuja perisokie.The mad one was the shooter.

37Tulipa nuolet valmeheks'.The arrows became ready.

38Kun rupiu ampumah,When they began to shoot,

39Kaikki voitel' mavon rasvalla nuolet,All arrows greased with bear fat,

40Siitä ampu taivahalle:Then shot toward heaven:

41Tahto taivonen haleta,The sky wished to freeze,

42Ilman koaret katkiella,Heaven's arches to shatter,

43Sitä ei eneä etšitä.That could no longer be found.

44Toisen ampu moaemäh,The second shot toward earth:

45Sitä ei eneä etšitä.That could no longer be found.

46Kolmannen kivehe ampu:The third shot at a stone:

47Sepä kilpasi kivestä,It sparked from the stone,

48Kalpasihe kallivostaGlanced off the rock,

49Polvehen pojan pätövän,Struck the boy's knee,

50Väinämöisen varpahah.Into Väinämöinen's toe.

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.

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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-003221 · Read at SKS ↗

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