La mie lakatta laulan
In the SKVR edition: Liissilä, Rampala. Väinö Salminen. n. 956. 1906.
SKVR textEnglish
1La mie lakatta laulan,So I sing ceaselessly,
2Tiellä heitetty heläjän.A harp cast on the road.
3Kuka heitti heinämaalle,Who threw it to the hayfield,
4Kuka pellon pientareelle,Who to the field's edge,
5Kuka tarhan tanterelle?Who to the yard's clearing?
6Isoi heitti heinämaalle,Father threw to the hayfield,
7Emoi pellon pientareelle,Mother to the field's edge,
8Vello tarhan tantereelle.Brother to the yard's clearing.
9Tuol miun toitti tuomen kukka,There the bird cherry bloom fed me,
10Varsin voapukka elätti,The raspberry truly nourished,
11Puhastutti puolanmarja,Purified by lingonberry,
12Kaunistutti karpaloinen.Adorned by cranberry.
13Alko siit vilu vihata,Then the cold began to hate,
14Kaste suuri karkotella.The great dew to drive away.
15Sit mie uottelin akana,Then I waited like chaff,
16Mistä t'ii vilulle viitan,Where to find a cloak for cold,
17Hallalle hyvän hamehen.A good skirt for frost.
18Sus on syönyt suuren uut'in,The wolf ate the great calf,
19Kantant kesoi karitsan.Carried off the tame lamb.
20Ei oo miulla niinkuin muilla,I have not like others,
21Niinkuin muilla tyttölöillä,Like other maidens,
22Ei oo ilmassa isoa,No father in the sky,
23Eik oo maassa emoa.No mother in the earth.
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 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.
Permanent address of this poem at SKS: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:sks-kvr-014884 · Read at SKS ↗
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