Tou, tou Toukolan ämmä
In the SKVR edition: [Hattula.] Tuomarila. 72. 11.
SKVR textEnglish
1Tou, tou Toukolan ämmäCluck, cluck, Toukola's hag
2katkaisi meidän vasikan hännänCut off our calf's tail
3kirnusi siitä leiviskän voitaChurned a leiviskä of butter from it
4Mistä se voi?Where is the butter? / How is it possible?
5Kettu sen söi.The fox ate it.
6Missä se kettu?Where is the fox?
7Aittojen alla.Under the storehouses.
8Missä se aitta?Where is the storehouse?
9Tuli sen polttiFire burned it.
10Missä se tuli?Where is the fire?
11Vesi sen sammutti.Water extinguished it.
12Missä se vesi?Where is the water?
13Härkä sen joi.The ox drank it.
14Missä se härkä?Where is the ox?
15Keihäs sen tappoiA spear killed it.
16Mistä se keihäs?Where is the spear from?
17Seppä sen takoi.A smith forged it.
18Missä se seppä?Where is the smith?
19Tauti sen kaatoi.Illness felled him.
20Missä se tauti?Where is the illness?
21Kukko sen nokkiThe rooster pecked it.
22Kiiteli kaateli kymmenen meren ylitse.Soared and tumbled over ten seas beyond.
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.
- 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-048732 · Read at SKS ↗
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