Vein isäntä, vein emäntä
In the SKVR edition: Porajärvi. Krohn n. 6296. - 84.
SKVR textEnglish
Vein nenä.
a.
1Vein isäntä, vein emäntä,I took the master, I took the mistress,
2Prosti miutani!Forgive me, mine!
3Kuin lienen mitä mie tuumannu,As I may have whatever I thought,
4Mitä ajatellu pahoa,Whatever evil I pondered,
5Prosti miutani!Forgive me, mine!
6A lienen mie siu luo tulemah!Yet may I come to your side!
b.
(Siit toissa iltana):
7Vein isäntä, vein emäntä,I took the master, I took the mistress,
8Prosti miutani!Forgive me, mine!
9Lienen mie teän luo tulemah.I may come to your (pl.) side.
c.
(I 3:ntena iltana):
10Vein isäntä, vein emäntä,I took the master, I took the mistress,
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d.
(Siit kuin proajah mäni):
12Hyvä isäntä, hyvä emäntä,Good master, good mistress,
13hyvin käyttä minun luo proajal,Guide me well to my place by the path,
14toiste muistakkoa tulla!Remember to come again!
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.
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-006474 · Read at SKS ↗
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