Mitkä tuoll meroissa uivat?
In the SKVR edition: [Tyrön tienoo]. D. E. D. Europaeus. III 3. 22. 1853.
SKVR textEnglish
1Mitkä tuoll meroissa uivat?What creatures swim there in the seas?
2Uutkoit tuoll meroissa uivat.Grebes swam there in the seas.
3Mikä uutkoin siivon alla?What is under the grebe's wing?
4Kätkyt uutkoin siiven alla.A nest is under the grebe's wing.
5Mikä kätkyen sisässä?What is inside the nest?
6Neito kätkyen sisässä.A maiden is inside the nest.
7Mitä neitonen tekee?What does the maiden do?
8Kultakangasta kutoopi,She weaves golden fabric,
9Hopeaista helskyttääpi.makes silver shimmer.
10Taittui 1 kultalankoi,The golden thread snapped,
11Helsahti hopealankoi.the silver thread clinked down.
12Tuosta neitoi itkemähän,Then the maidens began to weep,
13Itse itki, kyynel vierishe herself cried, a tear flowed
14Sulkku rinnoille rekoille,onto the brooch, onto the breast's folds,
15Hopeaiselle solelle.onto the silvery band.
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-012140 · Read at SKS ↗
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