Päivälintu peäskyläinen

SKVR IV3 3223·Liissilä·1906·Collector: Salminen, Väinö

In the SKVR edition: Liissilä, Rampala. Väinö Salminen. n. 966. 1906.

SKVR textEnglish

1Päivälintu peäskyläinen,Day-bird, the swallow,

2Yölintu, lepakkolintuNight-bird, the bat-bird,

3Lenteli kesoisen päivän,Flew through a summer day,

4Sykyväisen yö pimiän.Through an autumnal dark night.

5Etsi moata moatakseen,Sought earth to rest upon,

6Peltoo pesiäkseen,A field to nest in,

7Murtoa muniakseen.Broken earth to lay eggs.

8Ei soa moata moatakseen,Could find no earth to rest,

9Lehtoa levätäkseen,No grove to repose in,

10Peltoa pesiäkseen,No field to nest in,

11Murtoa muniakseen.Broken earth to lay eggs.

12Lensi mustalle merelle,Flew to the black sea,

13Lensi laivan kannen peälle;Landed on a ship's deck;

14Tuossa kukku, tuossa lauloi,There it crowed, there it sang,

15Poikaisen sotahe männä"Let the son go to war,

16Isän mieliksi pahoiksi,To please father's ill will,

17Tyttösen kottii jäähäLet the daughter stay home,

18Äiti mieliksi hyviksi,To please mother's good will,

19Isän mieliksi pahoiksi.To please father's ill will."

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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