En mie laulella luvant
In the SKVR edition: Hevaa, Tönttölä. O. Groundstroem. n. 127. 1861.
SKVR textEnglish
1En mie laulella luvantI do not sing with permission,
2Viiena, kuunna vuotuuen,As fifth, with the moon yearly,
3Kuunna kymmennä kesään.With the moon, the tenth summer.
4Jouvuin nuori nuoristoon,I came young to the youth-group,
5Jouvuin nuorien sekaanI came among the young ones,
6Jouvuin jousenen kotiin,I came to the swan's home,
7Kalalinnun kartanoon.To the waterbird's manor.
8Jousenen koti on korea,The swan's home is splendid,
9Kaloilinnun ajvan kauno,The waterbird's fold is fair,
10Vetonlinnun pöytä pesty,The waterfowl's table scrubbed,
11Pesty on kuuvel sulal,Scrubbed with dry feathers,
12Seitsemäll höyhenel.With seven feathers.
13Löysin suuni laulamast,I found my mouth from singing,
14Itseä iloitsemast.Myself from rejoicing.
15Jo miun kieli maottui,Already my tongue lay still,
16Jo miun suuni sammaltuisAlready my mouth mossed over
17Sammaliin kultaisin,With golden mosses,
18Vesoin hopeaisin.With silver waters.
19La avaan suruisen suuni,Now I open my sorrowful mouth,
20Halukkaat happahot!Eager ones, attend!
21En voi ilotta ollak,I cannot exist joyfully,
22Lapsen lauluitta eläellä,Live without a child's song,
23Hos kasvoin ilomäelle,As I grew on Joy-hill,
24Kasvoin laulun kallahoil,Grew on Song's cliffs,
25Vierin vesil vessenäl.Rolled on water's currents.
26Isoin ilon suvaitsi,The elder allowed joy,
27Laulun salli laukojani;Permitted song to my lips;
28Ei iso ilosta lyönnyt,The elder didn't strike from joy,
29Vello ej virtta oppimast,Brother didn't bar learning verse,
30Siso ej saamast sanoja,Sister didn't block gaining words,
31Emä ej eestä laulamast.Mother didn't forbid singing.
32Täysikkäinen, kyllikkäinen,Fully formed, fully sated,
33Kyll on teiks, kyll on meiks,Enough for you, enough for us,
34Kyll on i kaikeks kyläks.Enough for the whole village.
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.
Permanent address of this poem at SKS: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:sks-kvr-013133 · Read at SKS ↗
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