Mänin metsää kesolla

SKVR IV3 3254·Liissilä·1906·Collector: Salminen, Väinö

In the SKVR edition: Liissilä, Kirppula. Väinö Salminen. n. 995. 1906.

SKVR textEnglish

1Mänin metsää kesolla,I went to the forest in summer,

2Puhetessa putken juuren,While speaking by the snake's root,

3Lehen kaunon kasvajessa,In the growth of the fair leaf,

4Tuomen tullessa kukalle.When the bird cherry came to bloom.

5Olliit kullat kulmillain,There was gold on my brows,

6Sinilankat silmilläin,Blue threads on my eyes,

7Kultalierit leuvallain,Golden coils on my jaw,

8Vyölläini hyvät hopijat.Fine silvers on my belt.

9Varas katso varvikost,A thief peered from the thicket,

10Mies vihane vitsikost;A wrathful man from the brushwood;

11Otti kullat kulmilta,He took the gold from my brows,

12Sinilangat silmiltä,The blue threads from my eyes,

13Kultalangat leuoiltani,The golden threads from my jaw,

14Vyöltäni hyvät hopiat.The fine silvers from my belt.

15Mänin itkinnä kotihe,I went weeping homeward,

16Itkinnä emoni luokse.Weeping to my mother's side.

17Emo vasson vastajeli:Mother answered promptly:

18"Mitäs itket, tyttäreni,"Why weep, my daughter,

19Mitäs valkonen valitat?"Why do you lament, fair one?"

20"Sitä itken mie emoni,"For this I weep, mother:

21Mänin metsähän kesolla,I went to the forest in summer,

22Lehen kaunon kasvajessa,In the growth of the fair leaf,

23Tuomen tullessa kukalle;When the bird cherry bloomed;

24Olliit kullat kulmillani,There was gold on my brows,

25Sinilangat silmilläni j.n.e.Blue threads on my eyes, etc."

26Varas katso varvikosta,"A thief peered from the thicket,

27Mies vihane vitsikosta" j.n.e.A wrathful man from the brushwood, etc."

28Emo vasten vastajeli:Mother replied again:

29"Elä itke, tyttäreni,"Do not weep, my daughter,

30Kyllä veikko toiset tuop,Your brother will bring others,

31Toiset tuop, toiset soapi!"Others he'll bring, others he'll get!"

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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