Osasi miu emoni

SKVR IV3 3218·Liissilä·1906·Collector: Salminen, Väinö

In the SKVR edition: Liissilä, Rampala. Väinö Salminen. n. 961. 1906.

SKVR textEnglish

1Osasi miu emoni,My mother knew how,

2Osasi omenan tehhä,She knew to grow the apple,

3Taisi taimen kaazvatella;She could tend the sapling;

4Ei osanut istutella.But could not plant it well.

5Istutti kovalle moalle,She planted on hard ground,

6Kovan pellon pientarelle,To the hard field's margin,

7Miss ei kasva koalin taimet,Where no koalin sprouts grow,

8Sikkeä sikori juuret;Nor pigweed's tangled roots;

9Pani puille pyöreville,She set them on round logs,

10Varvoille vapiseville.On quivering branches.

11Puu ku pyöri, mie putosin,When the log rolled, I fell,

12Lehti liekku, mie lepatin,The leaf fluttered, I trembled,

13Varpa voaru, mie vapisin.The twig bent, I shook.

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.

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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