Mehiläinen maasta nousi
In the SKVR edition: Lentiera. Eur. G, n. 36. - 46.
SKVR textEnglish
1Mehiläinen maasta nousi,The bee rose from the earth,
2Sinisiipi mättähästä;Blue-winged from the mound;
3Lentelihe, liitelihe,It flew about, glided about,
4Ympäri sepän pajoa.Around the smith's forge.
5Mehiläinen, mies kepiä,Bee, o staff-bearing man,
6Lennä sinne, kunne käsken:Fly there where I command:
7Taivon tähtien tasatse!To the plains of heaven's stars!
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9Monen kukkasen kuvusta,From many a flower's blossom,
10Monen heinän helpehestä,From many a grass's blade,
11Allin kielen kantimista,From the root of Alli's tongue,
12Joukosen kynän sisästä!From the thunderbird's claw's core!
13Tuos on niitä voitehia,There are those ointments,
14Joita ennen Luoja loitsi,Which long ago the Creator chanted,
15Joita Jesus on puheli,Which Jesus has spoken,
16Joilla Jesus voieltihWith which Jesus anointed
17Pirulaisen pistoxis,Against the devil's stings,
18Pahan vaimon vammaxis!The evil wife's wounds!
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-006338 · Read at SKS ↗
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