Voi miun ehtonen emoni

SKVR IV1 380·Hietamäki·1848·Collector: Europaeus, D. E. D.

In the SKVR edition: [Nuolij. - Liissilä]. D. E. D. Europaeus. III 2. 276. 1848.

SKVR textEnglish

1Voi miun ehtonen emoni,Oh my evening-like mother,

2Voi miun maire mammaseni,Oh my tender nurturer,

3Osasit omenan tehä,You knew how to craft an apple tree,

4Taisit taimen kasvatella,You could nurture a sapling,

5Et osanut istutella,Yet could not plant it properly,

6Istutit kovalle maalle,You planted it on hard earth,

7Panit puille pyöriville,Placed it on swaying trees,

8Lehtosille liekkuville,In fluttering groves,

9Varvoille vapiseville.On trembling aspens.

10Puu pyöri, miä putosin,The tree spun, I fell,

11Varpa vaaru, mie vapisin,Aspen on slope, I trembled,

12Lehti liekku, mie lepatin,Leaf fluttered, I flapped,

13Putosin punajokehen.I fell into the red river.

14Vei miun virta rantuelle,The current bore me ashore,

15Linnut söivät miun lihani,Birds ate my flesh,

16Varikset varin vereni,Crows sipped my blood,

17Korppi luuni kollahteli.The raven rattled my bones.

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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