Nuku nuku nukkerainen
In the SKVR edition: Loppi. Aaltonen. HO 1 172. 14. Hunsala. Maija Kantti, 83 v.
SKVR textEnglish
1Nuku nuku nukkerainen,Sleep, sleep, little sleepy one,
2pane maata mansikkainen,lie down, little strawberry dear,
3lintu tuapi liinapairan,the bird brings a linen pillow,
4korpilainen korvatyynyn.the forest one [brings] an ear-pillow.
English translations by DeepSeek R1, provided by Lidia Pivovarova (University of Helsinki). AI-generated translations may contain inaccuracies.
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-047235 · Read at SKS ↗
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