Mie oon pillillä pietty

SKVR III1 99·Narvusi·1858·Collector: Länkelä, Jaako

In the SKVR edition: Narvusi. J. Länkelä. v. I 14. 1858.

SKVR textEnglish

1Mie oon pillillä pietty,I was held by the flute,

2Kanteleilla kasvatettu,Raised with kantele strings,

3Mie oon kutkalla kukittu;I was clasped with a brooch;

4Isyt pillillä piteli,Fathers held me with the flute,

5Vello kanto kantelella,Brother bore me on the kantele,

6Setä kutkalla kukitti.Uncle adorned me with the brooch.

7Mie oon siso viien vellon,I am sister to five brothers,

8Nato seitsemän miniän,Bride to seven daughters-in-law,

9Mie oon kylälle kuoma,I am the village's visiting bride,

10Vallan naisille vateri.A vessel for the women's power.

11Ei minua muut sanoisi,Others would not name me,

12Muut sanoisi, muut toruisi,Others would name, others rebuke,

13Naiset saatanat sanovat.Women-devils declare it.

14Kuin mun tuojani toruisi,As if my matchmaker scolded,

15Saunan tuojani sanoisi;My sauna-escort would chide;

16Kiroaa kantamaton,The unborn one curses,

17Saunan saamaton sanoopi.The sauna-less one speaks.

18Millä maksan mamman vaivat,How repay my mother's pains,

19Millä vaivat kuorijani?How my sister's suffering?

20Hyvän tetren lihalla,With a good grouse's flesh,

21Paksun tetren palliolla.With a plump grouse's fat.

22Hyvä on hylettä syyä,Good to eat seal meat,

23Paha on olla pakkasessa;Bad to stay in the frost;

24Kylmä kynsiä kysyy,Cold demands your fingernails,

25Alta jalkoja anoo,Pleads beneath your feet,

26Päältä tahtoo pääyttäni.From above, it craves my head.

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.

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