Siiain tiedän, kussa synnyin

SKVR IV2 1580·Serepetta·1856·Collector: Stråhlman, K.

In the SKVR edition: Serebetta. K. Stråhlman. n. 77. 1856.

SKVR textEnglish

1Siiain tiedän, kussa synnyin,There I know where I was born,

2Ajan kaiken, kussa kasvoin;All my days, where I grew;

3Siit en tiedä mie poloinen,Yet I, poor wretch, know not this:

4Kuhun kuolema tulee.Where death’s path will lead me.

5Tuohon kuolema tulee,To that place death arrives,

6Issoin ikkunan aloille.To the master’s window’s edge.

7En mie malta tuossa maatuI cannot rest there lying,

8Isän kirjan lauhulta,Beneath father’s book’s chill,

9Emmoin värttänän hyryltä,Mother’s spindle’s whirring,

10Sissoin pirran piukkehelta,Sister’s distaff’s tight pull,

11Veikkoin kirveen kilkkeheltä.Brother’s axe’s ringing blow.

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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