Mikä tualt näkkyy?

SKVR IV2 1573·Serepetta·1856·Collector: Stråhlman, K.

In the SKVR edition: Serebetta. K. Stråhlman. n. 70. 1856.

SKVR textEnglish

1Mikä tualt näkkyy?What is visible from there?

2Talo tualt näkkyy.A house is visible from there.

3Mikä tuon talon takana?What is behind that house?

4Tammi tuon talon takana.An oak is behind that house.

5Mikä on tammin latvasessa?What is in the oak's treetop?

6Kätkyt on tammin latvasessa.A cradle is in the oak's treetop.

7Mikä on kätkyen sisässä?What is inside the cradle?

8Veikko on kätkyen sisässä,A brother is inside the cradle,

9Sissoin kätkyen sivessä.A sister is beside the cradle.

10Mitä veikkoin tekkee?What does the brother do?

11Kirjan kantta kirjuttaa.He writes the book's cover.

12Mitä siskoin tekkee?What does the sister do?

13Kulta kangasta kuttoo,She weaves golden fabric,

14Hopiaista helkyttää;Twists silver threads to jingle;

15Taittui yks kulta lanka,One golden thread snapped,

16Jo helätit hopia lanka.Then the silver thread jingled.

17Tuosta, neitoi itkemään,Then, maidens began to weep,

18Laattian lakasemaan,To sweep the floor,

19Löys kultasen omenan,They found a golden apple,

20Puolet söi ja puolet peitti,Ate half and hid half,

21Punaisen turkin ala,Under a red coat,

22Luan ala lahkanaan.Under a bone's splinter.

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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