Osasi miun emoni

SKVR IV1 52·Venjoki·1847·Collector: Europaeus, D. E. D.

In the SKVR edition: [Venjoki]. D. E. D. Europaeus. J 412. 1847.

SKVR textEnglish

1Osasi miun emoni,My mother knew how,

2Osasi omenan tehä,She knew to craft an apple,

3Taisi taimen kasvatella,She nurtured the sapling,

4Ei osannut istutella;But couldn’t plant it;

5Pan tuo puulle pyörivälle,Placed it on a spinning tree,

6Varvulle vapisevalle.On a trembling branch.

7Puu pyöri, miä putosin,The tree spun, I fell,

8Varpu vieri, miä vapisin,The branch swayed, I shook,

9Putosin punamerehen,I fell into the red sea,

10Meri vei miun rantaselle,The sea bore me ashore,

11Linnut söivät miun lihani,Birds ate my flesh,

12Varikset varin vereni.Crows drank my blood.

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.

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