Kuin oisin omilla mailla

SKVR IV1 120·Venjoki·1847·Collector: Europaeus, D. E. D.

In the SKVR edition: [Venjoki]. D. E. D. Europaeus. J 480. 1847.

SKVR textEnglish

1Kuin oisin omilla mailla,If I were on my own lands,

2Oman pellon pientarilla,On my field’s small border,

3Toisin lintu laulelisin,As a bird, I’d sing differently,

4Toisin kukkusin käkönen,The cuckoo would call differently,

5Omat kuuset kuuntelisi,My own spruces would listen,

6Omat oppisi petäjät.My own pines would learn.

7Nyt oon mailla vierahilla,Now I’m on foreign lands,

8Tiki tuntemattomilla,Here in unfamiliar places,

9Miss ei lennä meien linnutWhere our birds don’t fly,

10Eikä vaaku mein varikset.Nor our crows even caw.

11Mihin jouvun mie polonen,Where would I, poor one, go,

12Jouvuin joutsen-joukostani,Leave my swan flock behind,

13Haihuin hanhiparvestani,Scatter from my goose flock?

14Tok mie lintu laulelisinStill, I’d sing as a bird,

15Sekä kukkusin käkönen.And the cuckoo would crow.

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.
The editors’ notes, and the marks in the verses that point to them, are left out; they can be read at SKS.

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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