Emo tuuditti mijuista

SKVR IV3 3462·Koprina·1904·Collector: Kupri, A.

In the SKVR edition: Koprina, Saapru. A. Kupri. n. 19. 1904-5, 1907.

SKVR textEnglish

1Emo tuuditti mijuista,Mother rocked [her child] away from me,

2Tuudi turvaksi jalansa,She rocked her leg as a support,

3Vaivaseksi varpahansa,Made her toes feeble,

4Hataraksi hartiansa.Made her shoulders unsteady.

5Luuli turvan tulleheksi,She believed support would arrive,

6Varapäivän valkenevan,The rescue-day dawning;

7Ei tullut emolle turva,But no support came to the mother,

8Varapäivä ei valennut;The rescue-day did not dawn;

9Tuli turva turnukselle,Support came to the underling,

10Käskyläinen kärnykselle,The subordinate to the frail one,

11Veltolle ve'en vetäjä.To the weak water-hauler.

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.

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