Ei oo teistä laulajista

SKVR IV1 106·Venjoki·1847·Collector: Europaeus, D. E. D.

In the SKVR edition: [Venjoki]. D. E. D. Europaeus. J 466. 1847.

SKVR textEnglish

1Ei oo teistä laulajista,There are none among you singers,

2Kuolasuista kukkujista,Of the drool-mouthed crowers,

3Kuin en aina mie alota,As if I didn't always begin,

4Mie alota mie lopeta!I begin, I end!

5En miä opissa ollut,I was not in training,

6Seist en seppien pajassa,Nor stood in smiths' forge,

7Syönt en rauan suurimoja,Did not eat iron grits,

8Lappont en teräksen lientä.Nor lapped steel's broth.

9Muut tytöt oliit opissa,Other girls were in training,

10Seisoit seppien pajassa,Stood in smiths' forge,

11Söivät rauan suurimoja,Ate iron grits,

12Lappoivat teräksen lientä,Lapped steel's broth,

13Mie en joutunt kotonta,I didn't end up homeless,

14Emoin ainoan apunta,My mother's sole support,

15Yksinäisen ympäriltä,From around the lonely one,

16Mie vaan kiinitin kiveä,I just clung to stone,

17Laulatin lapotus-puuta,Made the beating-wood sing,

18Kiven puu käkenä kukku,Stone's wood cuckooed like a cuckoo,

19Kiven siili sirkkusena.Stone's hedgehog (sang) sparrow-like.

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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