Velloin on venosen seppä
In the SKVR edition: [Nuolij. - Liissilä]. D. E. D. Europaeus. III 2. 160. 1848.
SKVR textEnglish
1Velloin on venosen seppä,Vellamo's boat-smith,
2Laivan seppä lakluein,Ship-smith of the masts,
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4Vesti hiekalla venettä,Dragged the boat on sand,
5Somerolla sorvaeliCarved on the gravel,
6Meren hiekat hernehiksi,Turned sea-sand to peas,
7Meren someret sokeksi,Sea-gravel to burbot-fish,
8Meren rauniot rahoiksi.Sea-debris to silver coins.
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.
Permanent address of this poem at SKS: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:sks-kvr-011934 · Read at SKS ↗
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