Yrjänä iso isäntä
In the SKVR edition: Iitti. Perttola 2. 06.
SKVR textEnglish
Yrjön-päivänä laskettiin koko kylän karja ulos, ja yksi isännistä luki hiljaa:
1"Yrjänä iso isäntä,"Yrjänä, great master,"
2pane koiras' kahlehesen,"put your dog in chains,"
3minä lasken karjani valloilleen.""I release my herd to the pastures."
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-051331 · Read at SKS ↗
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