Piika mäni riistä ripsumaan
In the SKVR edition: Karstula. Krohn 138 c. 84.
SKVR textEnglish
Vihne.
1Piika mäni riistä ripsumaan,The maid went to pluck/gather from the game,
2Peräpartta puistamaan,To shake/clear the rear edge [of the field],
3Siellä vihne silmään mäni,There a splinter went into [her] eye,
4Joka viipy siellä viisi vuotta,Which lingered there five years,
5Seiso seihtemän keseä.[She] stood seven summers.
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.
Permanent address of this poem at SKS: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:sks-kvr-053113 · Read at SKS ↗
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