Ää, ää ämmän lasta
In the SKVR edition: Narvusi. J. Länkelä. v. IV 33. 1858.
SKVR textEnglish
Lasta nukuttaissa:
1Ää, ää ämmän lasta,Hush, hush the crone's child,
2Napakuoren naisen lasta,The woman of the navel-bark's child,
3Tervatynnerin tytärtä.The daughter of the tar-barrel,
4Nuku, nuku yksi silmä,Sleep, sleep one eye,
5Torku, torku toinen silmä,Doze, doze the other eye,
6Nukkukaat molemmat silmät,Let both eyes sleep,
7Saisin itse maatakseni,So I myself could rest,
8Kylässä käyäkseni,To walk about the village,
9Linnassa lipatakseni,To dash through the castle,
10Narvassa napatakseni!To snatch in Narva!
11Tule ulkoa unoinen,Come from outside, dreamy one,
12Käy lapsen kätkyessä,Enter the child's cradle,
13Vakahaisen vaattehessa,In the steadfast one's garments,
14Hullukkaisen huntuloissa!In the wild one's veils!
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-007253 · Read at SKS ↗
Added by RunoVerse: the English translations, the song types, the verse numbers and the links.