Meiän miehen metsän käyvät

SKVR III3 4329·Soikkola·1858·Collector: Länkelä, Jaako

In the SKVR edition: Soikkola. Länkelä 655. 58.

SKVR textEnglish

1Meiän miehen metsän käyvät,Our men go into the forest,

2Urot korven konteliat.Heroes, the wilderness dwellers.

3Pyhät syytti pyyn lihoilla,The holy ones fed the partridge with meats,

4Aret syötti ahvenen kaloilla.Aret fed the perch with fishes.

5Sanoi pyy, metsä pyrähti,The partridge spoke, the forest boomed,

6Pyy pyrähti, maa järähti,The partridge clattered, the earth quaked,

7Karvajalkanen karahti.The shaggy-footed one startled.

8Niukahti Kiesuksen hepoinen.Kiesus' horse whinnied.

9Etsin tieltä tietäjätä,I sought a wise one from the path,

10Lukulangan laulajita,Singers of the sacred thread,

11Suonien sovittajaata,A mender of veins,

12Kumpi liitti lihat luihin,Who joined flesh to bones,

13Luut liitti lihoin kiini,Bones fastened to sinews tight,

14Suonen otsat solmieli;Vein-ends knotted together;

15Teki päältä tuntumattomaksi,Made it seamless from above,

16Alta kivuttomaksi.Painless from below.

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.

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