Vaimot vatsa väänteissä
In the SKVR edition: Akonlahden r. a. Lönnrot A II 10, n. 9. 35.
SKVR textEnglish
1Vaimot vatsa väänteissä,Women's bellies in torment,
2Parahikse palparikse.For the best, as a helper.
3Onko niin tahikka toisin,Is it so or otherwise,
4Tules tänne tarvitessa,Come here when needed,
5Tules tulla, meällä jouvu,Come to join our gathering,
6Tule, tuskat tummuttele,Come, silence the pains,
7Kivut pannos kinttahisi,Cast the pains into your heels,
8Vaivat vanttusi nenähän!Ailments into your belly's nose!
9Vie kin̄as kiven rakohon,Take the ache to the stone's crevice,
10Vantut vaarojen lomahan!Pains to dangers' lair!
11Käy tänne:*Come here:*
12Pihti puoliset porota,Split the halves with tongs,
13Takasalpat poikki taita,Break the rear latches,
14Pieni sormista pihalle!Little one, out from the fingers!
15Ne on tarkkoja tosia,They are precise indeed,
16En mä viiti viisastella.I won't bother to philosophize.
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.
Permanent address of this poem at SKS: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:sks-kvr-003370 · Read at SKS ↗
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